Prefontaine's, along with a sly elusiveness that's just right for a character with such innate star quality. In a role originally intended for Tom Cruise, handsome Billy Crudup shows an insouciant charisma to match the real Mr. As a maverick who could rebel his way to the finish line (and set seven American speed records in the process), the track star is seen here as captivatingly arrogant in ways his coach can neither resist nor really change. The renowned coach Bill Bowerman, played by with great, wry authority by Donald Sutherland, appears to have met his match in Mr. On an Oregon hillside, with a tranquil unspoiled landscape in the background, the film's two principals match philosophies so intensely that they might be discussing Eastern religion, even if their ostensible subject is Mr. Towne's, lies in the film's way of filtering a young man's headstrong nature through an older man's more rueful point of view. And precisely because this sports story is not about winning, losing or even how you play the game, it becomes a broader parable than the viewer has any reason to expect. In ''Without Limits,'' a writer famed for enriching screenplays (his own and others') with the gift of unruly, unpredictable life has taken on a curiously amorphous subject and invested it with deep, reflective power. Towne's Prefontaine biography is the most stirring and unmistakably personal film he has directed. Though the link between the mercurial track star Steve Prefontaine, who died in 1975 at 24, and the veteran Hollywood screenwriter Robert Towne is not immediately obvious, Mr.
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