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DVD Seabiscuit (Full Screen Edition)
Proving that truth is often greater than fiction, the handsome production of Seabiscuit offers a healthy alternative to Hollywood's staple diet of mayhem. With superior production values at his disposal, writer-director Gary Ross (Pleasantville) is a bit too reverent toward Laura Hillenbrand's captivating bestseller, unnecessarily using archival material--and David McCullough's familiar PBS-styled narration--to pay Ken Burns-like tribute to Hillenbrand's acclaimed history of Seabiscuit, the knobby-kneed thoroughbred who "came from behind" in the late 1930s to win the hearts of Depression-weary Americans. That caveat aside, Ross's adaptation retains much of the horse-and-human heroism that Hillenbrand so effectively conveyed; this is a classically styled "legend" movie like The Natural, which was also heightened by a lushly sentimental Randy Newman score. Led by Tobey Maguire as Seabiscuit's hard-luck jockey, the film's first-rate cast is uniformly excellent, including William H. Macy as a wacky trackside announcer who fills this earnest film with a much-needed spirit of fun. --Jeff Shannon
Deja Vu or my pocket aches but my spirit is strong
I can imagine the writers of this movie sitting around, trying to come up with a cliche collage that comes through as clever this days in hollywood. Alonside with their copy of : "make big buks writing A class drama - use ackward couplings to lost them into your pocket!" The chosen formula: Parallel between historical event, physical and soul conditions. Fill in the blanks: 1-"the great depression (big horse with economic broken leg due to big losses")2-"underdogs> a small fiesty horse who: breaks a leg.a small fiesty jockey who looses his parents and breaks a leg. A manager who looses his son/not break a leg.
All legs and looses heal at the end and succeed, and recover from poverty.
Great Family Movie
My eight year old loves horses, and I had originally rented this movie for her. I wasn't completely sure she'd enjoy it, but she loved it so much we ended up purchasing the movie for her. Its really a heartwarming tale that the entire family will enjoy.
Evoking an Era
I am fond of the era depicted in this film. I hope that does not mean I'm depressed...
Seabiscuit's story is used as a metaphor for everything great about our country in that era. It is a good story, and told in a fun and engaging way.
I would have given the film the 5 stars it really deserves if only the producers had been more attentive to period detail.
The narrative has to hop around in time a little bit, which does the movie good service. However, it's disconcerting to look at 1939 cars in scenes title as 1931. This type of glitch took away just enough of my vast enjoyment of the film.
Much to admire in the cinematography, too, although the close shots of the jockeys bobbing up and down are not very convincing.
Director Joe Johnston has always had an entertaining sense of adventure, and with Hidalgo he proves it in spades. It's yet another underrated film for Johnston (along with such enjoyable popcorn flicks as The Rocketeer and Jurassic Park III), dismissed by many critics but a welcome treat for anyone drawn to good ol'-fashioned movie excitement. In his first role since playing Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Viggo Mortensen brings handsome appeal to his low-key portrayal of Frank T. Hopkins, a real-life long-distance horse racer who, as the movie opens, has witnessed the appalling massacre of Native Americans at Wounded Knee in 1890. Drifting into Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, he agrees to compete, with his trusty mustang, Hidalgo, in "The Ocean of... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Viggo Mortensen - Zuleikha Robinson - Omar Sharif Director(s): Joe Johnston DVD Release Date: Released the 03 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This PBS documentary is surprisingly good and I'm surprised it is an American Experience title. This features author interviews and words from Red Pollard's daughter and friends. There is fantastic actual race footage of the glorious, knobby-kneed, funny little animal. Seabiscuit sure put War Admiral and Sam Riddle in their place. Seabiscuit is my hero because his is the story of an underdog coming to glory--but its for real! More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 03 June 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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If you can get past its thick layer of syrup and molasses, Secondhand Lions reveals itself as a thoroughly decent family film that anyone can enjoy. It gets a little sappy sometimes, but there's something to be said for a movie in which Michael Caine and Robert Duvall play eccentric old brothers who take the easy approach to fishing: instead of a peaceful rod and reel, they use 12-gauge shotguns. When 14-year-old Walter (Haley Joel Osment, teetering on puberty) spends an eventful summer with his great-uncles on their vast Texas farmland (he's been dumped there by his delinquent mom, played by Kyra Sedgwick), he soon discovers they've lived lives full of adventure, excitement, passion, and mystery. Either that or they're old-time bank robbers with a long criminal record, and... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Tim McCanlies DVD Release Date: Released the 03 February 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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You won't need a bottle of rum to enjoy Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, especially if you've experienced the Disneyland theme-park ride that inspired it. There's a galleon's worth of fun in watching Johnny Depp's androgynous performance as Captain Jack Sparrow, a roguish pirate who could pass for the illegitimate spawn of rockers Keith Richards and Chrissie Hynde. Depp gets all the good lines and steals the show, recruiting Orlando Bloom (a blacksmith and expert swordsman) and Keira Knightley (a lovely governor's daughter) on an adventurous quest to recapture the notorious Black Pearl, a ghost ship commandeered by Jack's nemesis Capt. Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), a mutineer desperate to reverse the curse that left him and his (literally) skeleton crew in... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Gore Verbinski - Hamilton Luske DVD Release Date: Released the 02 December 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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