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Betting market watch: Line moves, early action and bookmaker insights. Notable bets: Aaron Rodgers owns the Bears, and Chicago bettors know it. Notable bets: 'By far our worst Sunday of the season'. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery -- with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin -- manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in twenty-five years.
The Impossible True Story. Biography Drama Family History Sport. Rated PG for brief mild language. Did you know Edit. Trivia In the Belmont Stakes, Secretariat 's winning margin 31 lengths and winning time still stand after 37 years. Goofs In the film the announcer for the Belmont Stakes mentions the margin of victory being 31 lengths which was true, but in real life announcer Chic Anderson announced it as 25 lengths because he was unable to correctly estimate the distance between the horses due to the incredible lead Secretariat had.
Quotes Penny Chenery : More than three thousand years ago a man named Job complained to God about all his troubles and the Bible tells us that God answered. Crazy credits Zappa Studios talent for extra work. User reviews Review. Top review. Run, Fat Horse, Run. This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it. Because you never know how far you can run unless you run. It's impossible not to fall in love with this horse and his story.
Disney was the right choice for the production of this film considering their success with other family friendly sport films like Remember the Titans. Secretariat was voted as one of the best athletes of the century number one on the list if we don't count human performances , and several of his records still stand to this very day nearly 40 years later.
His story had to be told in film as Secretariat is considered to be the best racehorse of all time. The story involving his owner, Penny Chenery, and how she saved her ailing father's stable risking everything including her marriage and betting it on the horse just adds to the overall dramatic effect of the plot.
Secretariat reminded me a lot of another good racehorse film: Seabiscuit. I wouldn't say this is a better movie, it's different, but I can say that Secretariat was a better racehorse that won the most important races, including the Triple Crown in a feat that hadn't been accomplished in 25 years.
Randall Wallace writer of Braveheart and director of We Were Soldiers did a good job with the direction of this film, despite being better known as a screenplay writer. Penny's father used to be the brains of the entire operation in Meadow Stables, but with the death of his wife and his illness things are going downhill at the stable. Penny decides to change things around in order to save the stable and begins by firing their trainer who seems to be making some unfavorable deals with other owners by trying to sell their horses at a much lower value.
Penny with the help of the family's trustworthy secretary, Miss Ham played humorously by Margo Martindale begins managing the place.
The first smart move she makes is breeding one of her horses: Somethingroyal with a famous Thoroughbred racehorse named Bold Ruler. Of course the movie can't be successful if it doesn't have some drama in it, and so some problems surface back home with Penny's husband, Jack Tweedy Dylan Walsh , because running a stable back in Virginia has affected Penny with her housewife duties.
Somehow Penny has to manage saving the stable in a macho dominated society and maintain her family together, while risking everything on one horse: Secretariat. Secretariat succeeds as a film because the story is just so powerful and uplifting.
The movie deals with overcoming difficult odds and following one's dream. Penny had a good life as a housewife, but all this had led her far away from her early goal of following her father's footsteps and managing the Meadow Stables.
Once the opportunity presents itself to her she quickly takes on the difficult task and decides to follow her long life dream. Secretariat teaches us that it's never too late to follow one's dreams and overcome difficult situations. Disney has always been good at reminding us how important it is to fight for our dreams. Life is a race and if we don't wake up in time our dreams and goals might just end in that: only dreams and we will never achieve anything if we don't take risks in order to live out our dreams.
Penny took the risk and bet it all on Secretariat who didn't fail her. The story of this colt is just amazing and inspiring. The final scene where he is racing at the Belmont Stakes is just mesmerizing and left me full of goose bumps. Secretariat was such an amazing horse, and his story is done justice in this family friendly film. It is a strong, memorable movie that teaches us some important lessons while at the same time never ceases to entertain it's audience.
The performances in this movie are also great. Secretariat is a movie for the entire family to enjoy.
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