Although names and events were changed, it tells the story of the 1987 Oxford Cambridge Boat Race, from the perspective of Topolski and Macdonald.

Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax, this low-budget film was made by Film4 Productions, starring Dominic West, and Josh Lucas.

The film cuts to the next year, when the recent world champion Daniel Warren (Dan Lyons) arrives in Oxford with some other Americans.

We then see a montage of training sequences before the Fours Head of the River Race, for which the top boat is changed at the last minute at the instigation of Warren, prompting fury from the ejected crew member.

[4] It expanded to 108 screens a week later but only grossed £63,645, finishing in tenth place nationally[5] and continued to perform poorly at the box office.