Plot Spoilers for a film you already know the ending.
The film is based on the true story of "Mind That Bird" a 50:1 shot that won the Kentucky Derby in 2009. The first part of the film introduces Chip Wooley (Skeet Ulrich) seemingly the world's worst horse trainer. He meets Mark Allen (Christian Kane) in a bar fight and they luck into getting "Mind That Bird." The film then makes the family look as uncouth as possible, short of cousins marrying. Based the horse's performance before they couldn't win with him, they qualify for the Kentucky Derby which seems unlikely to them too. For some reason, we get to see one of the most boring cross country road trip on the screen in order to bring together Wooley and Pamela Blach (Judith Jones), sort of. Of course the family is made to look crude in Kentucky and then cue the orchestra music for that feel good feeling, the same music played in nearly all come from behind sports films.
Yes, you get that final rush when the horse we knew was going to win, crosses the finish line, the same as Secretariat. The acting wasn't great and neither was the dialogue. The script was apparently written for and by country folk who believe Jethro Bodine was a master mind. Okay, not quite that bad, but they really did dummy down the owners and trainers, especially Wooley, who we rarely see with the horse or doing something intelligent.
Kudos for saying "This is the best day of my life" without playing it on the soundtrack.
Guide: No F-bombs, sex, or nudity.
The film is based on the true story of "Mind That Bird" a 50:1 shot that won the Kentucky Derby in 2009. The first part of the film introduces Chip Wooley (Skeet Ulrich) seemingly the world's worst horse trainer. He meets Mark Allen (Christian Kane) in a bar fight and they luck into getting "Mind That Bird." The film then makes the family look as uncouth as possible, short of cousins marrying. Based the horse's performance before they couldn't win with him, they qualify for the Kentucky Derby which seems unlikely to them too. For some reason, we get to see one of the most boring cross country road trip on the screen in order to bring together Wooley and Pamela Blach (Judith Jones), sort of. Of course the family is made to look crude in Kentucky and then cue the orchestra music for that feel good feeling, the same music played in nearly all come from behind sports films.
Yes, you get that final rush when the horse we knew was going to win, crosses the finish line, the same as Secretariat. The acting wasn't great and neither was the dialogue. The script was apparently written for and by country folk who believe Jethro Bodine was a master mind. Okay, not quite that bad, but they really did dummy down the owners and trainers, especially Wooley, who we rarely see with the horse or doing something intelligent.
Kudos for saying "This is the best day of my life" without playing it on the soundtrack.
Guide: No F-bombs, sex, or nudity.