Seabiscuit (film)
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Seabiscuit is a 2003 film based on the novel Seabiscuit: An American Legend. The true story recounts the life and racing career of Seabiscuit, an undersized and overlooked thoroughbred race horse whose unexpected successes made him a hugely popular sensation in the United States near the end of the Great Depression.
- Directed by Gary Ross. Based on the book by Laura Hillenbrand. Screenplay by Gary Ross.
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[edit] Red Pollard
- You know everyone thinks we got this broken down horse and fixed him, but we didn't. He fixed us. Every one of us. And I guess in a way, we fixed each other, too.
- You don't throw away your life just 'cause it's banged up a little bit.
[edit] Tom Smith
- Every horse is good for something.
[edit] Charles Howard
- The horse is too small. The jockey too big. The trainer too old, and I'm too dumb to know the difference.
[edit] Narrator
- The first time he saw Seabiscuit, the colt was walking through the fog at five in the morning. Smith would say later that the horse looked right through him, as if to say, "What the hell are you looking at? Who do you think you are?" He was a small horse, barely fifteen hands. He was hurting, too. There was a limp in his walk, a wheezing when he breathed. Smith didn't pay attention to that, he was looking the horse in the eye.
[edit] Dialogue
- Red: [entering Samuel Riddle's stables] Jesus Christ, I want to be a horse.
- Tom Smith: You're almost big enough.
- George Woolf: Wanna know what I think?
- Charles Howard: Of course.
- George Woolf: I think it's better to break a man's leg than his heart.
- Howard: You could be crippled for the rest of your life.
- Red: I was crippled for the rest of my life. I got better. He made me better. Hell, you made me better.
[edit] Taglines
- A long shot becomes a legend.
- The hopes of a nation rode on a long shot.
- The true story of a long shot who became a legend.
[edit] Cast
- Toby Maguire - John "Red" Pollard
- Jeff Bridges - Charles S. Howard
- Chris Cooper - Tom Smith
- Elizabeth Banks - Marcela Zabala Howard
- Gary Stevens - George Woolf
- Eddie Jones - Samuel D. Riddle
- David McCullough - Narrator
