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So is director and co-writer Robert Towne ( Personal Best, Chinatown ), who "holds the enigma of Prefontaine's self-propulsion up to the light, turns it this way and that, and then wisely leaves us more or less in the dark" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ). (Explore this collection of photos of the real Prefontaine.)