Horse manure?

Secretariat (2010)

This horse racing biopic comes from the Walt Disney stable and stars Diane Lane and John Malkovic. When a housewife's father can no longer run his horse farm she takes over and trains a horse to win the big horse achievement thing.

Like most films based on historic events there seems to be a fair amount of “artistic licence” involved here with characters removed or amalgamated and changing of certain facts. Hollywood and Disney in particular like a nice piece of feel good cheese and that is what we end up with here. There is nothing revolutionary or impressive about this film or it's message but it is well enough made. Neither the race sequences or the approach to the balance the main character has to strike between her family and professional lives stand out either which is a real shame as you would have thought they were the unique points of this film.

3/5