MPAA Rating: PG-13
Original Review Date: August 13, 2003
Reviewed by: Erin, Movie Muse
In a Nutshell: Very good. Chris Cooper and William H. Macy give
particularly memorable performances.
Quick Plot: A rich man who knows more about cars than horses
hires a down on his luck "weird" horse trainer and a "huge"
jockey to take his runt of a race horse to victory.
In Detail: I have heard nothing but good things about this
movie, and I really have nothing but good things to say about
it, except that it wasn't as great of a movie as I was
expecting. However, I usually feel disappointed when I leave a
film that was not all I hoped for, and that was NOT the case
here. I left the theater very satisfied and not disappointed at
all. Chris Cooper is just down-right wonderful! All of the
other performances are very good, but his stands out
particularly in my mind. So does William H. Macy's role; such a
character! Gary Stevens (plays jockey George Woolf) also
particularly sticks out as a wonderful performance, made all the
more amazing when you consider that he *is* a professional Hall
of Fame jockey (won the Kentucky Derby 3 times) and not an
actor. I will say that I found the film a bit slow; not a bad
thing in and of itself, just something to be ready for.
Wouldn't lose much on the small screen, I don't think.
