Born To Run

Jillian Bell plays a party lover who takes up running in an offbeat comedy

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The funny side of trying to get fit is the subject of Amazon Prime Video’s warm-hearted new movie Brittany Runs a Marathon.

The film stars Jillian Bell as Brittany Forgler, a New Yorker whose life revolves around partying and drinking. But when Brittany heads to a new doctor to get a prescription for an amphetamine she’s hooked on, she is shocked to be told she needs to become healthier and lose weight.

‘She has to figure out what she wants to do with her life,’ says Bell, 35, whose previous credits include films 22 Jump Street and