ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

nzpedals From very near the start, Newman and Woodward look so comfortable in each others presence. Well, they had been married for eleven years by then! There are other films where the "married" couple just look as though they are acting, and are not real. Here, it is so different and makes watching the rest of it worthwhile, and pleasant.OK, so we know that neither Newman nor Kapua won the 1968 Indy 500, so-what? It is easy to join in the excitement and appreciate the drama. The joining of real footage, especially of the first-lap pile-up is neatly and realistically done.Coping with infidelity is always going to be hard, by both partners, here they do it OK.Richard Thomas as the adopted son is good enough and led me to then watch his simply brilliant "All Quiet on the Western Front".

paradisebuglady I saw this "movie" in Charlotte, NC in 1969 as a 1st run, special release. Just saw it again on an obscure cable network (AntenaTV) that specializes in older (1950's to 1970's) TV and film. This weekend was a "Newman's Own Weekend" and one of the films shown was "Winning". In 1969 it was a 1st Date Movie & Dinner with the man I would eventually marry. He hated it (except for the soundtrack)and I loved it. Just enough soap mixed with the right amount of macho to please most. Admittedly, this was obviously Paul Newman's reason to get behind the wheel; the story/screenplay was about mid-line, but the duo of Newman & Woodward was enough to please most and Robert Wagner being ROBERT WAGNER didn't hurt. Also John Boy got face time with the A-Team. Dave Grusin's soundtrack takes me back 45 years; armed with a box of buttered popcorn, large fountain cherry Coke, trying to be a nice cool girl and hoping for the 2nd date. Thank you Paul and Joanne and Robert and Dave Grusin. You all shares so many gifts with us.

Dalbert Pringle If you were to actually delete all of the scenes in "Winning" that had anything to do with cars actually racing (which, themselves, weren't all that thrilling to watch, either), about all that would be left as a movie would be an almost unbearable continuation of some of the most dreadfully boring, melodramatic, soap opera slop that's ever been recorded on film.If nothing else, "Winning" was the sort of seen-it-all-before movie-experience that really made for a very effective sleeping pill.I can't begin to tell you how absolutely dull-dull-dull "Winning" was, especially if you take into account that its cast was headlined by the likes of Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Robert Wagner.Like, weren't these apparent Hollywood "heavy-weights" supposed to be the absolute cream-of-the-crop, reigning supreme at the height of their popularity and careers? So, uh, what the frick went wrong here? Not only was there absolutely no chemistry happening between Newman & Woodward on screen (yet, at the time, these 2 were actually married to each other), but, their totally passionless love scenes had me actually believing that these 2 (in real life) must've loathed each other right to the very bone.Whatever the hell kept Newman & Woodward together (in their real marriage) for nearly 50 years certainly remains a complete mystery to me.When it came to the supposedly "exciting" racing scenes, Winning's obviously clueless editor might have done some real wonders had he taken the time and gone back to editing school. And, besides that, it certainly appeared to me that both the screenwriters and the director may have had a somewhat vague idea of what racing car movies were all about, but, in the long run, they unfortunately got it all wrong with this here picture.Had Winning's 2-hour running time been reduced by a good half-hour, then, yes, perhaps, that might have made this picture more easy to tolerate, but, as it stood, it was nothing but a tedious, drawn-out bore.With Winning ending its story on what I think was one of the most terrible and contrived notes in movie history, it seems that the only one who I'm sure came out ahead as a result of this farty fiasco film was the Goodyear Tire Co. whose blatant product advertising was ground into this viewer's face, over and over and over again, ad nauseum.V-room! V-room! Like, get me outta here, pronto!

Lee Eisenberg First, I should say that I've never been into car racing. The only other racecar-themed movie that I've seen is "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" (which was certainly funny). That said, I didn't find James Goldstone's "Winning" to be a bad movie. Although the movie meanders a little too much, it was mostly a solid focus on the toll that racecar driver Frank Capua's (Paul Newman) obsession with winning takes on his marriage. The verbal exchanges between Frank and his despondent wife Elora (Joanne Woodward) run kind of long at times. The scenes of the races themselves make the sport look like a death wish. But overall it's a good movie, and it has a better ending than you'd expect.Also starring Robert Wagner, Richard Thomas, and a whole bunch of racers as themselves.