The Top of the Hill

Michael Stone is a rising company executive who decides to chuck his career and marriage to fulfill a fantasy to be a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsled team and partake in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.

Cast

Wayne Rogers

as Michael Stone

Elke Sommer

as Eva Heggener

Adrienne Barbeau

as Elizabeth Stone

Sonny Bono

as Bobby Antoine

Peter Brown

as McCain

J.D. Cannon

as Frank Langrock

Rae Dawn Chong

as Rita

Paula Prentiss

as Norma Ellsworth Cully

Macdonald Carey

as Mitchell

Denise DuBarry

as Maria von Taub

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