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Its the Depression, and everyone needs to hold onto a dream to get them through the bad times. Car maker Charles Howard is no different, he who is trying to rebuild his life after the tragic death of his only child and the resulting end of his first marriage. With second wife Marcela at his side, Charles wants to get into horse racing and ends up with a team of underdogs who are also chasing their own dream. The first is trainer Tom Smith, who has a natural instinct to spot the capabilities of horses. The second is the horse Tom chooses for Charles, , an unconventional choice as despite his pedigreed lineage, Seabiscuit is small at fifteen and a half hands tall with a slight limp. But Tom can see something in Seabiscuits nature to make him a winner, if only Seabiscuit can be retrained from his inbred losing ways. And third is the jockey they decide to hire, Johnny "Red" Pollard, so nicknamed because of his hair color. Like Tom, Red has always shown a natural way with horses, but a difficult upbringing due solely to the Depression has made Red an angry young man, which has gotten him into trouble both on and off the track. And he is large for a jockey, and thus he always feels the need to battle the weight issue. Another common trait between Tom, Seabiscuit and Red is that they have been called crazy by those in traditional horse racing circles. Against the odds, Seabiscuit, with his human team behind him, does show his winning abilities and captures the imagination of all those others wanting to believe in a dream. But Seabiscuits victories are at smaller races. As such, Charles aims high and wants Seabiscuit to race Triple Crown winner , who by all accounts is a winner and should be a winner. If given the chance to race against War Admiral (whose owner doesnt want to race as he feels he has nothing to prove), will Seabiscuit and his team continue to keep the dreams of the common Americans alive? Through the good and the bad, especially as Red and Seabiscuit face mirroring problems, they all have to decide what is in their collective best interest.
In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main charactersfractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit "fixed us, every one of us."
Tobey Maguire
Red Pollard
Jeff Bridges
Charles Howard
Elizabeth Banks
Marcela Howard
Chris Cooper
Tom Smith
David McCullough
Narrator
Paul Vincent O'Connor
Bicycle Supervisor
Michael Ensign
Steamer Owner
James Keane
Car Customer
Valerie Mahaffey
Annie Howard
David Doty
Land Broker
Carl M. Craig
Sam
Michael O'Neill
Mr. Pollard
Annie Corley
Mrs. Pollard
Michael Angarano
Young Red Pollard
Cameron Bowen
Pollard Child
Noah Luke
Pollard Child
Mariah Bess
Pollard Child
Jamie Lee Redmon
Pollard Child
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