Challenge of a Lifetime
Drama
Comedy
TV Movie
5 / 10
February 14, 1985
1h 40m
Director: Russ Mayberry
Nora Scoonover is 35, divorced, in debt and going nowhere when her 16 year-old son, Steven, runs away from camp and asks to spend the summer with her. Together they decide that she will enter the Ironman Triathlon competition in Hawaii, although she has not done any running since high school. The experience brings them together.
Cast

Penny Marshall
Nora Schoonover

Richard Gilliland
Will Brodsky

Jonathan Silverman
Steven Schoonover

Mary Woronov
Mary Garritee

Paul Gleason
John Schoonover
James Bergeson
Donald Turnquist

Bart Conner
Unknown role
Nancy Hogshead-Makar
Unknown role

Cathy Rigby
Unknown role
Dave Scott
Unknown role
Mark Spitz
Unknown role

Jim Lampley
Announcer