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Secretariat

  • 20102010
  • PGPG
  • 2h 3m
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7.2/10
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Diane Lane, James Cromwell, John Malkovich, and Scott Glenn in Secretariat (2010)
The life story of Penny Chenery, owner of the racehorse Secretariat, who won the Triple Crown in 1973.
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Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.
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    • Randall Wallace
    • Mike Rich
    • William Nack(book "Secretariat: The Making of a Champion")
  • Stars
    • Diane Lane
    • John Malkovich
    • Margo Martindale
    • Randall Wallace
    • Mike Rich
    • William Nack(book "Secretariat: The Making of a Champion")
  • Stars
    • Diane Lane
    • John Malkovich
    • Margo Martindale
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    • 160User reviews
    • 161Critic reviews
    • 61Metascore
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    "Making of a Champion"
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    "Penny's Story" from Secretariat
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    Photos82

    Secretariat (2010)
    Diane Lane and AJ Michalka in Secretariat (2010)
    Diane Lane and John Malkovich in Secretariat (2010)
    Diane Lane and Nelsan Ellis in Secretariat (2010)
    Diane Lane in Secretariat (2010)
    Diane Lane in Secretariat (2010)
    Diane Lane in Secretariat (2010)
    AJ Michalka and Carissa Fowler in Secretariat (2010)
    Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Nelsan Ellis, and Jacob Rhodes in Secretariat (2010)
    Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Dylan Baker, Margo Martindale, Nelsan Ellis, and Otto Thorwarth in Secretariat (2010)
    Dylan Walsh, AJ Michalka, Carissa Fowler, Sean Michael Cunningham, and Jacob Rhodes in Secretariat (2010)
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    Diane Lane
    Diane Lane
    • Penny Chenery
    John Malkovich
    John Malkovich
    • Lucien Laurin
    Margo Martindale
    Margo Martindale
    • Miss Ham
    Nelsan Ellis
    Nelsan Ellis
    • Eddie Sweat
    Dylan Walsh
    Dylan Walsh
    • Jack Tweedy
    Otto Thorwarth
    Otto Thorwarth
    • Ronnie Turcotte
    Fred Thompson
    Fred Thompson
    • Bull Hancock
    • (as Fred Dalton Thompson)
    James Cromwell
    James Cromwell
    • Ogden Phipps
    Scott Glenn
    Scott Glenn
    • Chris Chenery
    Michael Harding
    Michael Harding
    • E.V. Benjamin
    • (as Mike Harding)
    Richard Fullerton
    Richard Fullerton
    • Robert Kleburg
    Tim Ware
    Tim Ware
    • John Galbreath
    Nestor Serrano
    Nestor Serrano
    • Pancho Martin
    Keith Austin
    • Laffit Pincay
    Kevin Connolly
    Kevin Connolly
    • Bill Nack
    Eric Lange
    Eric Lange
    • Andy Beyer
    Drew Roy
    Drew Roy
    • Seth Hancock
    Carissa Fowler
    Carissa Fowler
    • Sarah Tweedy
    • (as Carissa Capobianco)
      • Randall Wallace
      • Mike Rich
      • William Nack(book "Secretariat: The Making of a Champion") (suggestion)
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    • Trivia
      In the Belmont Stakes, Secretariat's winning margin (31 lengths) and winning time (2:24) still stand after 37 years.
    • Goofs
      In the film the announcer for the Belmont Stakes mentions the margin of victory being 31 lengths which was true, but in real life announcer Chic Anderson announced it as 25 lengths because he was unable to correctly estimate the distance between the horses due to the incredible lead Secretariat had.
    • Quotes

      Penny Chenery: More than three thousand years ago a man named Job complained to God about all his troubles and the Bible tells us that God answered. Do you give the horse its strength or clothe its neck with a flowing mane? Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting? He paused fiercely, rejoicing in his strength and charges into the fray. He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing, He does not shy away from the sword. The quiver rattles against his side, along with the flashing spear and lance. In frenzied excitement he eats up the ground. He cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.

    • Crazy credits
      There are no opening credits past the title.
    • Connections
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    • Soundtracks
      Silent Night
      Written by Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr

      Performed by AJ Michalka

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    7/10
    Good, but not GREAT!
    My grandmother was a parent during the '50's and liked everything neat and clean and in its place. Heaven forbid if things get too out of hand; too "real". I have waited my entire life for Hollywood to tell Secretariat's story and after watching Disney's Secretariat my heart remains unsatisfied. It was a good, "feel good" movie, but "good" is the keyword. I felt like Grandma edited this movie. Again, it is a good movie with some interjections of great cinematography, yet Secretariat was a GREAT horse and deserved a GREAT movie. This was an Oscar winning story, with an Oscar winning cast, but the script was emotionally impotent. There were no risks and risk is what horse racing is all about. The movie is so safe and there wasn't anything safe about the facts that surround this horse and his rise to be the greatest race horse that ever lived.

    Still today, when I watch Secretariat run on YouTube, I cry!!! I'm not sure why, but the tears flow from the depths of my being. Rationally, I try to tell myself that he is just a horse, but something overcomes me every time, no matter how many times I watch him run. That overwhelming surge of emotion is what this story deserved. If you've ever been in the presence of a great horse, you will know what I am talking about. They are strong and confident. You can feel their aura. There is a low rolling thunder of excitement when you are near them. Talk to the people who were there. Read the first hand accounts of their emotional state when they saw this horse run. He was mesmerizing, captivating, unexplainably breathtaking. The audience deserved to feel the thunder roll through them in every scene.

    I expected so much more from director Randall Wallace. The power and emotion of Braveheart, We Were Soldiers, Pearl Harbor, The Man in the Iron Mask, is what Secretariat deserves. Where was that? I'm not sure what research he did for this movie and how much his hands were tied by the real life characters or the studio, but the main character became the background and what was in the forefront was a "sugar coated" conflict of a woman with a driving passion and the place society and her family was trying to lock her into; however, even her passion didn't spill out onto the audience as it should have. I felt like the accomplishments of Penny Chenery and Secretariat have been shrunk down and placed into a nice, neat little box fit for a good little housewife and her sweet little horse. I felt as if I was the one being squelched, because I wanted so badly for everyone to share the emotion I feel at the sheer audaciousness when this horse ran. To accomplish what they accomplished, he and his owner had to be completely audacious to rise above the negativity and overwhelming odds surrounding them.

    Diane Lane is one of my favorite actresses; however, her role left me doubting the character. For example, when a woman talks to her horse, she does more than look into his eye for a few seconds and say, "Well OK then". When a woman truly needs to know something from her horse she breathes him in, they breathe each other in, as their souls entwine and one knows the other. You will see it on his face and you will see it on her face, without human words being spoken. This is a rare and special event, but it happens, and it could have carried this movie. If you have seen Diane Lane in "Unfaithful" you will realize this is an actress that could translate this kind of communication and emotion to the screen.

    The audience should have been allowed to feel the emotional range that surrounds all involved in preparing a horse for the greatest races any thoroughbred will ever run. Just watch horse racing on television and you will see real raw emotion that these people explode with at the end of the race. So much was on the line for everyone involved and yet throughout the movie everyone handled the stress with subdued emotion, never getting too far off the scale. Just when you thought someone was going to show some real feelings, they apologized for it. Real life is just as ugly as it is beautiful. Without the dark of night, the brightest stars would never beam their intense beauty upon us. Every masterpiece must have its extreme contrasts to fulfill the emotional needs of its audience.

    I'm not blaming anyone. I am sure everyone involved did their best. I am simply sharing with the reader my disappointment in what I thought would be a thrilling tribute to a horse so deserving.

    Ron Turcotte said the film captured the story "pretty well". I ask you, is "pretty well" good enough for the greatest race horse who ever ran on the track? Secretariat's heart was two and a half times the size of a normal horse's heart; I feel the portrayal of his story should have been two and a half times the size of any regular movie. He gave us everything he had when he ran the Belmont; thirty-one lengths ahead of Sham who was an amazing, record breaking horse in his own right. Don't we owe it to him, to give him everything we've got, to see that generations to come understand the events that transpired to make him who he is? Have we as a culture become so jaded that there can be no magic in the truth? Can the epic only be found in fiction? I don't believe it. I believe that purity of a moment of perfection forever locked in time is where magic can be found and that magic is why it brings inspiration and tears to the eyes of the soul who seeks it.

    Suzette Howard
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    • Oct 13, 2010

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      • October 8, 2010 (United States)
      • United States
      • Disney (United States)
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      • English
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      • Opelousas, Louisiana, USA
    • Production companies
      • Walt Disney Pictures
      • Fast Track Productions
      • Mayhem Pictures
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    • 2 hours 3 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital
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