Seabiscuit (Widescreen Edition) |
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Staring:
Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Cameron Bowen, Mariah Bess
List Price: $12.98
Our Price: $3.72
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- Condition: Used, Very Good
- Format: DVD
- AC-3; Anamorphic; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
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Product Description
A great American story from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Gary Ross, Seabiscuit stars Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges and Chris Cooper. Based on the inspiring true story of three men - a jockey, a trainer and a businessman - and the undersized racehorse who took the entire nation on the ride of a lifetime. This breathtaking film achievement is "a must-see moviegoing experience" (Chicago Sun-Times) and "a flat-out great movie!" (Larry King Live, CNN) Starring: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, Gary Stevens, William H. Macy, Eddie Jones, Ed Lauter Directed by: Gary Ross
Amazon.com
Proving that truth is often greater than fiction, the handsome production of Seabiscuit offers a healthy alternative to Hollywood's staple diet of mayhem. With superior production values at his disposal, writer-director Gary Ross (Pleasantville) is a bit too reverent toward Laura Hillenbrand's captivating bestseller, unnecessarily using archival material--and David McCullough's familiar PBS-styled narration--to pay Ken Burns-like tribute to Hillenbrand's acclaimed history of Seabiscuit, the knobby-kneed thoroughbred who "came from behind" in the late 1930s to win the hearts of Depression-weary Americans. That caveat aside, Ross's adaptation retains much of the horse-and-human heroism that Hillenbrand so effectively conveyed; this is a classically styled "legend" movie like The Natural, which was also heightened by a lushly sentimental Randy Newman score. Led by Tobey Maguire as Seabiscuit's hard-luck jockey, the film's first-rate cast is uniformly excellent, including William H. Macy as a wacky trackside announcer who fills this earnest film with a much-needed spirit of fun. --Jeff Shannon
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: NBC Universal
EAN: 9780783284217
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783284217
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 2003
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2003-12-16
Running Time: 141
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2003-07-25 |
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