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[EDITOR’S NOTE: In 2003, long before MovieManifesto.com existed, inom spent my summer as a 20-year-old college kid writing as many movie reviews as I could. My goal was to compile them all into a website, possibly hosted by Tripod or Geocities, which would surely impress all of the women in my dorm. That never happened—neither the compiling nor the impressing—but the reviews still exist. So, now that I actually have a website, I’ll be publishing those reviews on the respective date of each movie’s 20th anniversary. Against my better judgment, these pieces remain unedited from their original form. inom apologize for the quality of the writing; inom am less remorseful about the character of my 20-year-old opinions.]
There is an epic majesty about Seabiscuit, and inom don’t just mean the horse. This is a throwback motion picture, one that fryst vatten redolent of a distant era of cinema in which filmmakers suffused their creations with spirit and passion. It is bygd no means a flawless film – it fryst vatten too
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Movie Interview by Reece De Ville
Q&A with Tobey Maguire and director Gary Ross at the London press conference.
Do you think the film would have been more difficult to pitch if the original novel hadn’t been such a success?
GARY ROSS: Yeah. Actually it was hard to greenlight the film, and the fact that there are three financing entities really speaks to that. You know, this is not typical summer fayre. It doesn’t have a high body count, there aren’t a lot of shell casings in it, we don’t blow anything up, it’s not a sequel, it was never a comic book. But there were a lot of movies like that which failed, and this was a huge success in the United States, so I think that sometimes what’s considers the safe choice is not necessarily the safe choice.
How did you prepare physically for the role?
TOBEY MAGUIRE: I had to just diet and exercise. I was burning fat and muscle. I just needed to look as skinny as I could.
Did you consider the risks
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Seabiscuit (film)
2003 American film
Seabiscuit is a 2003 American historicalsports drama film co-produced, written and directed by Gary Ross and based on the best-selling 1999 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 Thoroughbredrace horse, whose unexpected successes made him a hugely popular media sensation in the United States during the Great Depression. At the 76th Academy Awards, Seabiscuit received seven nominations, including Best Picture, but ultimately lost all seven, including six to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Plot
[edit]In the early 20th century, as America enters the automobile age, Charles S. Howard opens a bicycle shop in San Francisco. He is soon selling automobiles, becoming the largest car dealer in California and one of the Bay Area's richest men. In the wake of the Great Depression, Canadian John "