The Loneliest Runner (tv 1976)

[@Thatgirl1965]

Rest in peace, Lance Kerwin. You were one of the FINEST child actors there ever was. ♥

[@Hemlock54]

The tour guide through my adolescence.

[@TonyLuke1977]

I agree. He was always in good entertaining movies or shows.

[@motamamita]

he really was.

[@TinaLouise73]

Fine in EVERY way possible! 😍

[@TinaLouise73]

He was beautiful inside and out. RIP gorgeus always my fave of my first celeb actor crushes xxxx

[@crh251]

Rest in Peace Lance Kerwin. This movie affected me more than most movies. I’m in my 50’s now and still think about it.

[@BillP-lo3li]

Ditto. Saw this on tv when it came out at age 11 and tho’ I wasn’t a bed wetter, I felt such EMPATHY for Lance’s character. He is amazing in this. And ohhhh I hate that mother!! To learn that this is based on Michael Landon’s own real life childhood makes it even better.

[@crh251]

@@BillP-lo3li, I know! It’s hard to believe a mother could be so cruel.

[@LaJoBa1]

RIP Lance, haven't seen this movie since I was 11 years old... And I was a bed wetter sometimes. You were in one of my favorite movies of all time Salem's Lot. May your soul soar in the Realm of the Almighty..

[@crh251]

Both my sons wet the bed up to 8 and 9 years old. I never got upset with them because I knew they couldn’t help it. I always thought of the cruel mother in this movie and vowed never to be like that.

[@JustJim772]

RIP To Perhaps one of the most underrated child stars of the 1970's🙏🙏🙏

[@blackbird5634]

Lance was in everything, the after school specials and so many others. Wow! Haven't seen him in ages! What a wonderful talent.

[@zingaradigiorno7775]

Rest in peace. I remember this movie like it was yesterday. I was 10.

[@maryannehorn2593]

I was always a fan of Lance Kerwin and Michael Landon. May they both rest in peace!

[@rebeccahernandez3460]

I was a bedwetter up until my teens. I think a lot of it for me was psychological. I had a terrible mother and I was afraid of her as a child. All she'd do is scream at me and hit me all the time. She loved slapping me across the face. Nothing I ever did as a little kid was right and she let me know it. And the teachers at my little country elementary school weren't much better, they were the kind who would scream at you, put you down, make fun of you in front of the class if you made a mistake and paddle you at the drop of a hat for little infractions. This was in the 60's. A lot of stuff they did then they can't get away with now. But I think that was why I suffered from bedwetting, because of the stress of always being afraid. Thank God I finally overcome it when I go older, but for anyone who suffers from it, I completely understand and you have my smypathy for what you are going through. I left home as soon as I could and never went back. Things got a lot better after that.

[@adolflazary5864]

Bravo!!!

[@Thatgirl1965]

♥️

[@jessicajones3379]

I’m so sorry 😢I understand. Sounds like you had the same mother I had. When I would wet the bed sometimes she would make me wear my wet underwear on my head that whole day and lay my wet sheets across the porch outside

[@carolpowell8142]

❤

[@carolpowell8142]

Love this film !! It was so Incredibly Cruel & Abusive what the mother did to her son by hanging the sheets out the Window! I can't comprehend how a parent could be so Cruel n heartless to their Child !! Rest in Peace Michael Landon ❤

[@chrishouse7522]

I loved this movie and James at 15/16. I was just 3 yrs. younger than Lance. My best friend in grade school wet the bed but I didn't care. This movie reminded me of him. Boy he had it rough and still does. God help the broken.

[@TinaLouise73]

Lance was 13 years older then me! My birthday is november 7th 1973 his was november 6th 1960! Both scorpios! X

[@blackjakko]

I remember this film. It was on TV when I was 8, I wet the bed, and my mom was in hospital dying from cancer. It was difficult watching it because I felt like him, embarrassed, scared, humiliated and most of all ashamed. It's awful because it's such a horrible secret. I couldn't go on overnight field trips, sleep overs. I went away to camp and woke up in a wet sleeping bag. I'll never forget the fear. What a torment, having no control over it and the rest of the girls in my cabin making jokes like I hope the girl in the top bunk doesn't piss the bed, they didn't know. I took my bag to someone before the girls woke up to have it washed. Absolute nightmare. The things children go through! Lance was such a cutie. Definitely had a crush on him ❤.

[@Alaninbroomfield]

I remember watching this when it originally aired.

[@LONESTARINDIE]

I loved Michael Landon. We always watched Little House on the Prairie every week. I miss shows like that. Shows with ❤️.

[@RebeccaLynnMusic]

All the love to Lance Kerwin. I don't know what happens when we die, but I hope it is peace and love.

[@joycebrackbill-henderly8311]

The Bible tells us the truth of what happens after physical death.

[@arnoldjack7956]

The bibles abuncha bullshit!​@@joycebrackbill-henderly8311

[@stidwell91]

As surely as Israel became a nation again in 1948, and as surely as it is a cup of trembling today, the Bible is true. The Bible says, we choose heaven or hell as our eternity. Christ is the only way to heaven.

[@valeriebreslin2008]

This is based on Michael Landon's childhood. He was Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie. He witnessed his mum,who was a dancer and comedian, attempt to commit suicide. He rescued her from drowning as a child. He vomited afterwards and said it was the worst experience of his life. The difference in the film is that Landon was a national champion javelin athlete. He bust his shoulder and had to give up. In this film the javelin aspect is changed to running. He wrote, directed, produced and acted in this. He struggled with alcohol in later life but was high functioning and a very successful actor, producer, writer and director. He had nothing nine kids. He has two biographies I think. Worth checking out.

[@sylvia.222]

Rip🤍to one of the best. I loved him on an episode on family (generations) thanksgiving episode. Rest easy 🕊️

[@incrediblenif]

Lance Kerwin was the prince of after school specials. I forgot this was about Michael Landon. . I loved that gguy!! Even as Little Joe. RIP Lance and Michael

[@MrCtsSteve]

Watched this when it came out . I was 10 . That mother ...wow .

[@Learnamericanenglishonline]

Lance Kerwin helped me through my adolescence in the roles he played on TV--this one and James at 15. I felt so sorry for his character in this movie. He was a very relatable actor. I didn't know he passed away.

[@DarrinCarlson]

This movie changed my life. I was a bed wetter up until I was 11 which was when this first aired. I felt so seen.

[@cathyt144]

Every time i come across this great movie i have to watch it. I always wonder tho why the parents couldnt buy the boy a bicycle ,esp for getting back and forth to school. His dad was a weak coward until he was pushed and mom was a total selfish biotch. Its a miracle the boy didnt grow up to be totally crazy having to grow up in that environment. RIP Michael Landon 😢

[@Chainsawslots]

James at 15. What a breakthrough tv series

[@artsvdo]

Rest in peace, Lance Kerwin😔

[@SlickArmor]

He seems so recognizable like he was in all the best 70's shows.

[@moshe2495]

This was written and produced by Michael Landon. I think this was actually his story as a child. BTW, Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary Ingalls)is John's friend.

[@LH74]

I was a bedwetter as a child. I used to wet the bed almost every night. Thank God it gradually got better. I learned different coping techniques to make it stop more. But even as a middle aged man I still sometimes I wet the bed. Maybe once every two or three months. It happens if I am in very deep REM sleep. I try to pee before bed and not drink any fluids after 6 or 7pm. It’s partly neurological and partly stress related. Thank God my parents didn’t shame me in public. But they did bitch at me a lot. My parents were into corporal punishment. They believed in hitting and using a belt. I went on to raise my kids with love and praise instead of hate and violence, and none are bed wetters. One of my sons was, but he stopped wetting by the time he was around 9 years old. Love your kids! Be understanding as a parent. Don’t be like the parents in the 70’s and 80’s who were ignorant and savage.

[@nathnatou9208]

Excellent ! ❤❤❤

[@andrealuvshouse]

I wet the bed every night until In was 11 or so. My mom was nicer about it than that but she still didn’t know what to do with me, and it was mortifying. I am 64 now and I wish i could go back in time and tell me as a little kid “it’ll be alright! You’ll grow out of it! There’s nothing wrong with you.”

[@coffeeforcreature]

Lance was an awesome child actor.

[@helenwright-s7l]

Thank you for uploading. The world would be a better place with more people like Michael landons making movies ❤

[@michaelfrancolini255]

Did not know about lance; RIP, this movie hit home to a lot of young boys! As of me, I was the fastest runner for years as a young boy, also a bed wetter till about 12 or more, I cry watching this, at best my parents were not anything like in he movie!

[@jeremiahrose4681]

WOw she wasn't a supportive mother. Heck I went through bed wetting...it's a physiological thing with me. After my mom was murdered and my dag was on drugs and I was living with relatives was a lot for a 8 year old. It took love and support and God to get over it. Into the film, the father lost my respect as well, thank your a man by traumatizing the boy after your heartless wife degrades you......yikes. If I was that boy I wouldn't be able to stick around.

[@beckysteinocker3814]

Bless u for surviving all that-sorry about ur mom 💜

[@waltermarceloledesma9653]

Esta peli inspira ciertos valores como el amor la amistad, y comprensión.

[@waltermarceloledesma9653]

Como se ve entre el tiempo presente y pasado el muchacho recuerda lo que lo impulso a tomar su desición en llegar a cierta meta de Correr.

[@CoheedBlood]

Thanks Bob and Tom

[@deb310red]

RIP Michael Landon. You were a talented actor, writer, and director.

[@boogiewoogit5597]

Mary Ingalls can see! She can see! It’s a Christmas miracle!!

[@DrRickA]

RIP Lance Kerwin Without James at 15/16 shows like Freaks and Geeks and My So Called Life wouldn’t have been possible James Franco and Jared Leto owe a lot to Lance Kerwin

[@BanthaPooDoo64]

See this film back then I was 12 ,I was one of 6 with this problem so I could relate to this film very well and how it felt w this disorder. But as time passed it finally stopped ,I was never punished for it buy my mom ,but my 2nd to the oldest brother was mean and still is today , he would tell ppl thinking that embarrassment would make it stop. My son now 24 never had that problem thank goodness but if he did I knew how to help him beat it.

[@allblacksaint]

Great movie, great kid actor. But DAM that emasculated father pissed me off !! Balls in mom's purse

[@alyssa3260]

RIP Lance

[@Rose-xy5pe]

The whole time that mother kept telling her husband to be a man, I felt like screaming at her, “Why don’t you be a woman?!” Women especially mothers should be sensitive, understanding, compassionate, and loving. Everything she wasn’t. And seriously, laziness?! I can promise everyone here that no one is that lazy!

[@pattycool8592]

Loved it James 15 / 16

[@waltermarceloledesma9653]

Me gustó mucho la película .

[@susanb2015]

This is based on Michael Landon's life. He used to be a bed wetter and his mother would hang his wet sheets on the clothes line outside so everyone could see it. So he would run home from school and take them down before his friends could see them.

[@70sgirl1961]

It takes a sadistic BiTcH to do this to your child.

[@sherrypaproski9564]

Great movie

[@3000Degreez]

I remember this movie

[@alcalderonjr4579]

I didn’t know that he passed away rest in peace lance. We are old now.

[@yitzchokkranczer6066]

It's horrible that some people here are more bothered by the father's timidity than by the mother's cruelty. What he did wasn't right, but don't underestimate the damage of trauma and how it makes one feel trapped.

[@LH74]

I’m happy for the father and son at the end.

[@adolflazary5864]

41: como sacar ventaja de una carencia . Gracias

[@candlesbyalexandria]

Most kids wet the beds from under development of bladder and also high blood sugar .

[@charlesgriffith7166]

Damn! Already had the bedwetting problem that he clearly couldn't help. Had an unyielding bitch of a mother giving him a hard time about it. Going levels to embarrass him with it. Then along with that, he had a father who was so henpecked by his mother he went along with her mission to embarrass him with it. It's a wonder he didn't turn out to be a serial killer.

[@adolflazary5864]

La vida es de los más fuertes

[@theresadelao9973]

He turned out to be a great actor, writer, director, and producer. This film was based on Michael Landon. A TV icon. May he RIP

[@infonut]

@@theresadelao9973 ... Very LOOSLEY based. His mother did not torment him or his sister. She was bipolar and clinically depressed.

[@youtube8775]

​@infonut It's loosely based on my story as well. Except my mother was 100 times worse & is still a narcissistic psycho who I haven't associated with since age 19. In addition to general physical abuse, for whatever reason, she put my wet underwear over my head during this phase. I'm not as famous as ML, but my life has gotten better every day since I removed her from it in '84.

[@hamed2928]

This movie reminds me somewhat of Ordinary People--especially the parent/child relationship. Except that the father in Ordinary People wasn't such a horrendous wuss at his son's expense. At least the father in Ordinary People made an effort to help his son.

[@Burton_aka]

Thank you I was looking at the world today... If he was turned into a statue... today...what would it look like...?

[@boogiewoogit5597]

The malignant narcissist mom, but the nutless dad? Almost worse than the Mom. He knew better.

[@blackjakko]

Yes, I felt betrayed when he FINALLY admitted that he also wet the bed. He let that bitch torture and humiliate their son. Wtf!?

[@infonut]

Remember, at this time MANY women trapped men into marriage by getting pregnant asap. They had no other future to look forward to and this is the end result. People trapped in a cage with those they can't stand. I would love to see the statistics on the decline/increase of bedwetting since divorce became the norm.

[@windsordawn]

It's hard to see Brian Keith as a wuss.

[@boogiewoogit5597]

That’s identical to my Grandma. My poor dads Mom . On a visit when I was twelve I got my second migraine ever. Puking, crying, literally begging for someone to kill me. Sounds drama Queen but that’s the extreme pain I was in. Pain like you can’t imagine, when people are laughing and joking and say “ I have a migraine right now “ ha I wanna punch them. She came in every 15 min to scream at me. “Yer just pulling this shit because y don’t like what I made for dinner. It ain’t gonna work! I’m Not making y anything else for dinner!!” At 120db it was hell, the screaming. Over and over, some imaginary scheme or sin I was supposedly up to. On and on. I was shocked my Dad didn’t have the balls to stand up to her and end the screaming at least. But, in that moment, he was a scared, abused, scarred little boy. Damn, she was a vicious monster. Luckily that was the only time I met her.

[@infonut]

After reading your posts I don't believe a word of this. You have all the characteristics of an attention troll.

[@rr7firefly]

They just don't make movies like this anymore. I laughed. I cried. I prayed for all young boys who wet their beds. I got hungry. I ate a bowlful of chicken and pea soup. I think I might take a nap now. /// Before I forget, Lance was a great young actor, but shouldn't that bed have had a plastic sheet under the regular bedding?

[@SlickArmor]

It looked like he had some kind of a pad on it but why should mom worry about that when she needs to come up with ways to ridicule him instead. What a witch of a wife and mother.

[@nilsschwarz9943]

Toller Film aber die Mutter könnte ich Wegboxen

[@aal.ateahadil]

للأسف. هذ ليست ولا اعرف معنى الأمومة. ان محسوبة. من الأمهات. ولا تعتبر من البشر. إذا كان هذا في الواقع. الأم رحمة وحب عطا ونبل واصالة. َمحبة.وهي التي تجعل المنزل ينور با الخير والأم. اساس. من أسس من سعادة الاسري. وعليه كل بيت يخلا من آلام يصبح في مهب الريح. هكذا هي الحياة وهكذا هي الأم. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ كل هذه القلوب للممثل الصغير. وللمخرج للكاتب القصة. ولكل الممثلين الا التي مثلت دور الام اي ام الولد الصغير. 🎉

[@LH74]

The mother is miserable and unfulfilled, she has everything in life, but she is ungrateful for it. Parents please don’t abuse your kids.

[@JenniferKing777]

JEZEBEL

[@antoniojosesales6257]

há 39 ano atrás

[@keithlast1487]

Remembered watching this with my parents in our new home. Later physical ailments made me remember this film and empathize with the protagonist to this very day,

[@vivianwadida3292]

Grumpy house wife.

[@yootoob1001001]

Mrs. Curtis needs help.

[@SlickArmor]

I don't understand how in the beginning he was waking up early and taking his sheets to be washed but later on as the movie progressed he just started leaving them on the bed so mom could hang them out the window. That just doesn't right. Weird.

[@joycebrackbill-henderly8311]

And his bed was tiny so there's no way the sheet would have hung that far down the house! 😅

[@SlickArmor]

@joycebrackbill-henderly8311 yeah right. You could see those sheets from space. 🤣

[@denisedoherty4909]

I think because the laundermat closed down and he did not have access to one anymore. Remember when he went there and it was closed and broke the window?

[@SlickArmor]

@denisedoherty4909 OK that must be it. For some reason I was thinking he was washing them at home. It's been a long time since I watched it. Poor kid, I wonder why the wash closed down he was bringing regular business. 🤔 🤣

[@yitzchokkranczer6066]

​@@denisedoherty4909It didn't close down. That day he went early and it wasn't yet open. I think that once he was caught lying, his mother made sure that he couldn't hide them anymore.

[@PatriciaWootten-pu7pp]

This mom belongs in inpatient psychiatric care - psychological abuse all the way! Bedwetting is a medical issue ... Great acting and storyline!

[@boogiewoogit5597]

When does the vampire kid come to his window?

[@Endoe.McKronic]

I once had a dream I was opening the bathroom door then peeing in a toilet. I then I woke up and was like... AH!! No more drinking water before bed!!

[@Juliet-y3g]

I think we have all had that dream.

[@nitehawk-de8fy]

neurotic mom

[@boogiewoogit5597]

Back in the good ol days when we used our faces as face masks.

[@DanielRatspliff]

This is the funniest shit I've ever seen

[@deeanderson4164]

What's so funny about a son being humiliated by his mother? And a husband who treats both of them like crap?

[@DanielRatspliff]

@Dee Anderson the plot of the movie is an Olympic runner became an elite athlete by racing home after school as a kid to prevent his crush from finding out he was a bed wetter...that is hilarious. And the dad was great to the kid for the most part, the mom was the one that was horrible. The dad slapped the kid only after the mom was a complete delusional cunt about the situation and pressured her spouse to discipline the son. It was odd that the dad lacked a backbone until the last scene of the movie tho. He easily could have asserted himself from the start and avoided all the trauma...but then they wouldn't have a gold medal winning son! 😆

[@lizadivine3785]

Sad for you

[@deathbat5597]

​@@deeanderson4164​ Ok it wasn't that he was a horrible father or husband but he struggled to communicate and get past the trauma he faced at his age. He is vulnerable with his son when he needs it the most. Realistically his mom was abusive and manipulative.

[@Juliet-y3g]

@@deeanderson4164 It was the mother who treated the son and father like crap.

[@deb310red]

This film was set in the 1950s.