Review: Athlete-turned-actress Alexi Pappas shines in 'Olympic Dreams,' a rom-com filmed backstage at Pyeongchang games

It’s the details in “Olympic Dreams” — a movie shot within the usually restricted confines of the Olympic Village at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea — and the discovery of athlete-turned-actress Alexi Pappas that make this small story so charming.

Pappas plays Penelope, a cross-country skier from an unnamed country whose event comes early in the Pyeongchang Games. She’s reasonably happy with her performance, but now she’s alone in a strange country pondering what to do now that she’s done the biggest thing an athlete in her sport can do. She spends time in the game room, tries out the massage chairs, and is just hanging out.

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