The Price of Gold (2014)

  • NR
  • 01/16/2014 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 1h 18m

Winning is everything when you come from nothing

Overview

The world couldn't keep its eyes off two athletes at the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer - Nancy Kerrigan, the elegant brunette from the Northeast, and Tonya Harding, the feisty blonde engulfed in scandal. Just weeks before the Olympics on Jan. 6, 1994 at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Kerrigan was stunningly clubbed on the right knee by an unknown assailant and left wailing, "Why, why, why?" As the bizarre "why" mystery unraveled, it was revealed that Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, had plotted the attack with his misfit friends to literally eliminate Kerrigan from the competition. Now two decades later, THE PRICE OF GOLD takes a fresh look through Harding's turbulent career and life at the spectacle that elevated the popularity of professional figure skating and has Harding still facing questions over what she knew and when she knew it.

Nanette Burstein

Director

Cast

Tonya Harding's headshot

Tonya Harding

Herself
Nancy Kerrigan's headshot

Nancy Kerrigan

Herself
Darin De Paul's headshot

Darin De Paul

Narrator (voice)
Ann Dewig's headshot

Ann Dewig

Richard Tatum's headshot

Richard Tatum

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