Very good movie, not great, best of summer easily...

Rating: Null/10 (23 August 2003)

I enjoyed this quite alot. Clearly they have taken the 'David McCullough on PBS' Ken Burns approach and run with it, director Ross should be proud that they made it work.
*Movie is basically a 'Four legged Rocky' storyline, based on the '30's underdog Racehorse of course. You know pretty much what will happen whether or not you had heard of Seabiscuit or not before. This is not a bad thing though.
*Jeff Bridges, Toby Maguire and Chris Cooper are all quite good, w/ Cooper as always stealing the show. Terrific actor. You see him in Lonestar? Well he's better if you believe it in this.
*Orfield(?) and other posters complaining that this movie isn't a documentary/compresses time/ events etc-please, lighten up. There is the book and then there is the movie, and neither are gonna ever be the same. Impossible, given the 2 hour running times and etc. Personally, I don't care if George Woolf and Red Pollard didn't REALLY talk at the comeback Santa Anita race, heck it works in the movie, please go with that. If I remember right, Kate Winslet didn't sail on the Titanic either......
*This reminded me of the Natural alot too. If you liked that, you will like this.
*They could have ended the movie at the end of the match race, instead of hanging on for the twin leg healings and the final race, etc-but that's okay. Those things Did happen after all.
*** outta ****, certainly the best of the summer.