Everybody Wins WIth Seabiscuit: The Great Horse Story Lovingly Recreated

Rating: 9/10 (6 May 2013)

It's amazing that director Ross has crammed so much adventure and history and luxurious evocation of past times into two-and-a-half hours, and even better that there are three penetrating if old-fashioned performances that frequently moved this viewer to tears.
Seabiscuit is the dominant horse story of the last century, from a time when such things were really important, when the communication between a human and an animal were more important than exploding buildings and noisy car crashes; this is a traditional Hollywood film that is brilliant colored, careful to recreate periods, offering, along with an ample amount of suspense and on the track adventure as well as a wee history lesson. The brilliant William H. Macy, as a seedy newscaster will make you laugh every time he appears on screen... and the "Biscuit" will steal your heart for a while