Secretariat

A highly entertaining, inspirational, thrilling, family-oriented, factually based, star-dotted (Margo Martindale, Dylan Baker, Fred Dalton Thompson, Kevin Connolly, et al.), Walt Disney film that chronicles the determination of Denver housewife Penny Tweedy/Chenery (Diane Lane), who is married to a supportive lawyer (Dylan Walsh) and has four children (Carissa Capobianco, Amanda Michalka, Sean Michael Cunningham, and Jacob Rhodes), to save the Virginia horse stables of her family after her father (Scott Glenn) becomes ill and hires flamboyant horse trainer Lucien Laurin (John Malkovich) and talented jockey Ron Turcotte (Otto Thorwarth) to guide an unproven colt she won in a coin toss with a wealthy businessman (James Cromwell) toward victory in horse racing's coveted Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes) during a 5-week period in 1973.
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