Seabiscuit: A Number One Winner to Uplift Those Hurting

This is by far, one of my favorite movies of all time. Having seen this movie time and time again over the years, never have I been bored by the plot of the story nor the dynamic triumph the movie signifies.

This is a great film for historian buffs of either horse racing, sports, or times of the great depression. This is a charmingly heartwarming story of a soul (horse and man), who's hope is all faded, but regains a sense of accomplishment and success.

This DVD Special Collector's Set is an added treat to a movie that already is top quality. The set features trading cards, a replica vintage paper-like clip, the feature DVD (just as released in the single disc release) and a bonus disc with further extras including more auctual footage of the great race battled between War Admiral and Seabiscuit. Also included in this DVD Collector's Set is a comemortive booklet filled with pictures and letters to coincide with the movie. If you love historic movies and movies based on real-life events, stories and individuals, you'll be amazed as you watch this unforgettable movie. Once nominated for seven academy awards, this movie is sure to touch your spirit.

"...look at us. Our horse is too small... Our Jockey is too big... Our trainer's too old... and I'm too dumb to know the difference" (Seabiscuit's owner speaks in the movie to a crowd of admirers).

Solid attempt at recreation of a best-selling book!

Inspirational movie set in the 1930's about an underdog, undersized horse and the 3 men who formed a strange alliance to ride him to glory!

Jeff Bridges in a characteristic performance gives this time piece integrity and believability, similar to the job he turned in years before as Tucker: A Man and His Dream. Tobey Maguire (Spiderman himself!) plays the role of the rough-and-tumble jockey who is the only man strong enough to ride such a wild horse. Maguire doesn't quite seem to pull off the coarseness required of this character and seems a bit lost in it's execution here. Also stars Chris Cooper and who else but William H. Macy in yet another timepiece role. A decent film rooted much more in drama than in sports.

DVD Seabiscuit

A knobble-kneed colt becomes a winning thoroughbred at the hands of its owner, its unorthodox trainer and its jockey, a half-blind Canadian ex-prizefighter, in this depression-era drama based on the true story of champion racehorse Seabiscuit. During a trying period in U.S. history, people across the country became fascinated with the inspiring success of Seabiscuit, awarded Horse of the Year in 1938.

Tobey Maguire, Chris Cooper, Jeff Bridges

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I love this movie because it is based on a true story about a Horse, a Grand Horse! And the 'Era' of the 1930's where people dressed up everyday. Women wore dresses, hats, gloves, and pump heels. And Men wore 4 piece suits, hats and behaved more like Gentlemen. I loved it more because this movie is packed with human emotions. Men and Women broken by their past and fighting to survive the times. Jeff Bridges, Tobey Maguire, Chris Cooper,Elizabeth Banks, Gary Stevens, and William H. Macy performed with great emotion. Great Artists in their own right.

Why did I decide to buy it? To lift up my spirits. To remind myself Seabiscuit is just one story about a few broken peoples in the world and were healed by one horse and how they all came together to love one another and healed one another!

Seabiscuit

The movie Seabiscuit represents movie making at it's best. It is perfectly cast and you get to see Gary Stevens, a Hall of Fame Jockey plays George Wolfe the legendary jockey of thoroughbred racings golden days. You see some of the history and grandeur of the Santa Anita Race track in the thirties. It is easy to see how popular those races of the past were and the characters who made horse racing truly the sport of kings. The movie is really four stories, the jockey, the owner, the trainer and of course the great Seabiscuit. This is a story which cannot be made any better and should become a classic in the years to come.
Robert W. Horton