True Story's are the best...this is one of them.

Rating: 10/10 (29 December 2004)

The photography was great as well as the locations of the shooting. Excellent photography is one thing...but excellent locations is another issue...the best photographer in the world can't make an impact without a great location and this one does from start to finish. The horse races are truly an exciting event to watch on screen...possibly better than actually being there in some ways since you get the on-track and up close view that you would never get from the stands.
The characters are so real that it doesn't take a lot of time to develop their persona. You can watch this movie and actually learn something positive for you own life by understanding these people's actions. They are not complete but they did have a sense of love and foregiveness for one another. Listen up homeschool mothers...This is a movie that could be legitimately used as an educational tool to teach psychology, US History and Sports...this movie does demonstrate a good use of the "fruit of the Spirit" but unfortunately without giving God any credit...CAUTION...there is one scene with partial nudity (a prostitutes back)...but at least it was not gratuitous...however, it could have been shot with just the woman's voice and not actually have shown her. It was an attempt by the writers to explain how naive the hero is...He is so naive he hopes his prostitute friend won't want the money...Wrong...but a good example of how easily man's nature deceives us, when going in the wrong direction. With the exception of the prostitute scene I would let my 9 year old son watch this movie...and we are very protective. There are some so called family movie's we won't allow. I would consider some of the fight scenes somewhat gratuitous...they could have been shorter and accomplished the objective of building the character.