Synopsis
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
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Cast
- Tobey MaguireRed Pollard
- David McCulloughNarrator
- Jeff BridgesCharles Howard
- Chris CooperTom Smith
- Elizabeth BanksMarcela Howard
- Gary L. StevensGeorge Woolf
- Eddie JonesSamuel D. Riddle
- William H. MacyTick Tock McGlaughlin
- Royce D. ApplegateDutch Doogan
- Chris McCarronCharley Kurtsinger
Recommendations
- 100
Baltimore Sun
Seabiscuit revives the sweeping pleasures of movies that address and respect the mass audience, raising the common denominator instead of pandering to it. This crowd-pleaser rouses honest and engulfing cheers. - 88
Rolling Stone
Unabashedly hokey, but would you want it any other way? In an era of cynical junk (did anyone say “Bad Boys II”?), Ross restores the good name of crowd-pleasing. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie's races are thrilling because they must be thrilling; there's no way for the movie to miss on those, but writer-director Gary Ross and his cinematographer, John Schwartzman, get amazingly close to the action. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
The three (human) leads are perfection. Bridges' Howard is as breezily garrulous and glad-handing as Cooper's Smith is laconic and withdrawn. Maguire's Pollard has haunted eyes and orangey hair that makes him look like a human jack-o'-lantern, and establishes his own unique rhythm and less-is-more style. - 70
Film Threat
Sublimely directed, scored, shot and performed, the picture misses greatness by a nose as a result of shortcomings in its script. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Watching this movie, you get the feeling that the Depression existed so that Seabiscuit could be memorialized. - 70
Wall Street Journal
For all its pictorial splendor and carefully calculated drama, this film misses greatness by a country mile. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
The movie's secret weapons are its stellar cast, whose performances go a long way to ameliorating Ross's ham-fisted use of foreshadowing and symbols, and its brilliantly shot racing sequences -- they're heart-stoppingly suspenseful even when the outcome is a matter of record.
