Directed by: Randall Wallace
Starring: Diane Lane, Scott Glenn, and James Cromwell
Running time: 123 minutes
The movie Secretariat is based on a true story. This movie starts when Penny Chenery, Diane Lane, goes to the ranch where she grew up because her mother has died. While she is there she ends up firing their horse trainer, she is now the boss because her father was no longer able to make executive decisions due to dementia and other health issues. In fact, the reason the trainer was fired is because Penny found out about a deal he was trying to make with another ranch. This crooked horse trainer was attempting to get penny’s father to sign off on a sale of several of their horses at a third of their actual value.
Penny realizes she can’t leave the ranch; she gets involved in the races and starts to get back into the family business of racing horses. She does all of this without the support of her family back home. Penny realizes that two of the best mares in her stables are pregnant by the best stud around, she does some research and finds that the one who seems to be obviously the better horse may actually not be the best horse of the two, she is pleased to know this because she is about to flip a coin with the man who owns the father of the colts to be born to see who gets to choose their colt. She loses the toss, but she does get the horse she had really wanted. This horse becomes known as “Secretariat”
I personally liked this movie. I had thought I wasn’t going to like it when I started watching it, but it is a good movie. This is a movie that you can watch with the whole family, as it is rated PG13. It is a pretty interesting story, and it goes through the life of this legendary race horse pretty well.
This does sound like a really good movie. It is very sad that the trainer was going to use her father when he had dementia.
ReplyDeleteThis movie sounds like i would be a really good one to watch. I agree with the other comment it is very sad that was what the trainer was going to do.
ReplyDeleteI have seen previews for the movie and it is not my kind of movie. I would rather have death in the movie.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I would like this movie. It sounds like another generic horse movie where the main character bonds with a certain horse and they win everything after a triumphant victory at the end. Randall Wallace is a great director, and that may help the movie.
ReplyDeleteThis movie looks pretty good. I'll have to check it out.Hoping though it won't be to similar to Seabiscut, the movie.
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to decide whether to see this movie or not when it comes to DVD. I do like heart warming movies that aren't too sappy, though, and this sounds like it would be good without being overdone.
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