Seabiscuit (film)
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| Directed by | Gary Ross |
| Produced by |
Kathleen Kennedy Frank Marshall Gary Ross Jane Sindell |
| Screenplay by | Gary Ross |
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand |
| Starring |
Tobey Maguire Jeff Bridges Chris Cooper Elizabeth Banks Gary Stevens William H. Macy |
| Narrated by | David McCullough |
| Music by | Randy Newman |
| Cinematography | John Schwartzman |
| Edited by | William Goldenberg |
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Universal Pictures (United States) DreamWorks Pictures (International) |
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141 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $87 million |
| Box office | $148.3 million |
Seabiscuit is a 2003 American equestrian sports film based on the best-selling non-fiction book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand. The film is loosely based on the life and racing career of Seabiscuit, an undersized and overlooked Thoroughbred race horse, whose unexpected successes made him a hugely popular media sensation in the United States during the Great Depression. Seabiscuit was nominated for seven Academy Awards.
Three men, Red Pollard (Tobey Maguire), Charles S. Howard (Jeff Bridges), and Tom Smith (Chris Cooper) come together as the principal jockey, owner, and trainer of the championship horse Seabiscuit, rising from troubled times to achieve fame and success through their association with the horse.
Red is the child of a Canadian family financially ruined by the Great Depression. In desperate need of money, the family leaves Red with a horse trainer. Red eventually becomes a jockey, but makes extra money through illegal boxing matches which left him blind in one eye. Howard is a clerk in a bicycle shop who gets asked by a passing motorist to repair his automobile, a technology which has recently been introduced. As a result, Howard becomes knowledgeable enough with automobiles to increase their performance and sell them as a dealer, eventually becoming the largest car dealer in California and one of the Bay Area's richest men. However, his son is killed in an automobile accident while driving the family car, which sends Howard into a bout of deep depression, which eventually results in his wife (Valerie Mahaffey) leaving him.
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