Could Have Been Good Family Movie, Except...

Rating: 5/10 (5 August 2003)

Seabisquit is being marketed as an old-fashioned entertainment film, the kind you might have seen in the 1930's or 1940's during the old studio era. However movies in the 30's or 40's would NOT have had a scene with the jockey visiting a prostitute and her taking her shirt off. A movie in the 30's and 40's would NOT have had the characters saying the Lord's name in vain 20 times during the picture. If the producers of Seabisquit had been wise they would have eliminated the superfluous prostitute scene and the curses and then this movie would have been one I could have taken my children to see. As it was I am glad I went alone to see it to check it out first. I felt sorry for the parents in the audience who had taken young children to see the film, thinking they were going to see a wholesome picture.
Hollywood, listen up. Stop putting offensive material in family films. We are sick of it! I give this film a 5, but if they had removed the offensive stuff I would have given it a 9 or 10.