Seabiscuit

Rating: 6/10 (17 January 2007)

This is quite a good true story from Gary Ross, the director - blind Johnny "Red" Pollard (Tobey Maguire) was trained to do some horse riding, and he wanted to make it a possible real career on the real tracks. Along with millionaire Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges) and mustang breaker Tom Smith (Chris Cooper), they found an undersized horse named Seabiscuit with a very slight limp and wheezing, but as they trained him, they discovered he could run at incredible speeds. Finally when they brought the horse, with Red as rider, to the public eye, they thought it was a joke, but how wrong they were. It was Seabiscuit who brought hope and glory back to Depression-era of the 1930's. Also starring Elizabeth Banks as Marcela Howard, Gary Stevens as George "The Iceman" Woolf, a great Golden Globe nominated William H. Macy as Tick Tock McGlaughlin, Kingston DuCoeur as Sam, Eddie Jones as Samuel Riddle, Ed Lauter as Charles Strub, Michael O'Neill as Mr. Pollard, Sam Bottoms as Mr. Blodget, and narrated by David McCullough. It was nominated the Oscars for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published and Best Picture, and it was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Drama. It was number 50 on 100 Years, 100 Cheers. Good!