Boston Marathon - Popular Culture

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A 2004 Canadian-produced feature film, Saint Ralph, is the fictional story of a fourteen year-old Ontario, Canada parochial schoolboy who runs and almost wins the 1954 Boston Marathon in order to commit a miracle to save his mother from dying of cancer.

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