This listing is for Seabiscuit (Full Screen) DVD Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges.
Actors: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, William H. Macy, Sam Bottoms
Director: Gary Ross
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
MPAA rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
Media Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby
Run time: 2 hours and 21 minutes
Release date: December 16, 2003
Subtitles: French, Spanish
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Number of discs: 1
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. 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)
Bonus Content:
• Feature Commentary with Director Gary Ross and Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh
• Bringing the Legend to Life: The Making of Seabiscuit
• Anatomy of a Movie Moment
• Seabiscuit: Racing Through History
• Photo Finish: Jeff Bridges' On the Set Photographs
• Seabiscuit Soundtrack Spot
• Cast and Filmmakers
• Production Notes
• DVD-ROM Features
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