1993’s Cool Runnings became, at the time, the highest-grossing, live-action movie Disney had ever made. At the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, four Jamaican athletes competing in the bobsled became darlings of the press and crowd favourites, creating such a stir they were mercilessly mobbed anytime they left the hotel. Hollywood was paying attention and, just five years later,
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