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, Cool Runnings (Saturday, July 31, 7pm, TVNZ 2) became the highest-grossing, live-action movie Disney had ever made. A perennial classic, both Denzel Washington and Eddie Murphy turned down roles, and it marked the last time John Candy went down the red carpet for one of his movies, sadly dying of a heart attack just five months after its release.