Sincere old fashion story

Rating: 8/10 (30 August 2014)

In 1910, Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges) working on an assembly line decides to start his own bicycle shop. Eventually he becomes great selling cars and a great automobile enthusiast. He becomes wealthy and purchases a horse ranch. Then the Great Depression happens. His son is killed in a car accident and his wife leaves. He later remarries Marcela (Elizabeth Banks).
Red Pollard (Tobey Maguire/Michael Angarano) from a loving family is left behind to ride race horses as a child when his family couldn't hold together. He has to struggle to get through the cold world. Charles Howard decides to get into horse racing. He hires world weary trainer Tom Smith (Chris Cooper). Tom sees a small horse named Seabiscuit who has something in him. People have deemed him too small, too lazy, and left him to the trash heaps. In many ways, Red has also been left to the trash heaps and is angry for it.
It's an epic in its own way. It is old fashion but in a good way. It's uplifting. The sense of lost from the main characters are all well done. The acting is all great. Tobey Maguire is able to give voice to the pain that both he and the horse have felt over their lives. The story is so sincere that one must accept it or else. It's an underdog movie with feelings.