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Seabiscuit Movie Rating: 
Missed Opportunity | |
| Millionaire Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges) assuages his grief over his son's death by going into horse racing, acquiring undersized equine Seabiscuit and hiring taciturn trainer Tom Smith (Chris Cooper) and too-tall jockey Red Pollard (Tobey Maguire). When the horse embarks on an unlikely winning streak, he becomes a Depression-era hero. | |
| The racing sequences of this film are tense and exciting, and the three leads are sensational playing wounded men seeking redemption. But the fact-based drama suffers from an overstuffed back story, bombastic direction by Gary Ross, and a syrupy score by Randy Newman. There is a great movie here struggling to break free, but it never quite makes it out of the starting gate. |
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