The World's Fastest Indian

    The World's Fastest Indian
    2005

    Synopsis

    The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

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    Cast

    • Anthony HopkinsBurt Munro
    • Walton GogginsMarty Dickerson
    • Diane LaddAda
    • Bruce GreenwoodJerry
    • Iain ReaGeorge
    • Tessa MitchellSarah
    • Aaron MurphyTom
    • Tim ShadboltFrank
    • Annie WhittleFran
    • Greg JohnsonDuncan

    Recommendations

    • 88

      TV Guide Magazine

      Rarely do movies portray the elderly with such admiration and respect.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      Does what it sets out to do: educates about a mostly unknown historical figure (without doctoring the facts too much), entertains, and uplifts.
    • 75

      New York Post

      Hopkins' larger-than-life performance as the crusty and crafty Burt rivets your attention for two solid hours in this most entertaining labor of love.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Hopkins' performance flat-out works.
    • 70

      Variety

      Sometimes shticky biopic overcomes its cornball conventionality to become a genial entertainment, thanks to Anthony Hopkins' exceptionally engaging performance.
    • 70

      Village Voice

      The result is a film as tenacious, peculiar, and likable as Burt Munro himself.
    • 70

      The A.V. Club

      Hopkins delivers such a warm, winning performance that it's hard not to be won over by his loopy charm and monomaniacal passion. The film is about a man whose need for speed takes on an existential and spiritual dimension, but it's precisely its rambling, meandering, unhurried affability that makes it such a low-key pleasure.
    • 70

      The New York Times

      This is a film that wears a smile button on its sleeve along with its happy heart. It believes that most people are absolutely wonderful, and it is well enough made so that a dusting of that dogged optimism is bound to rub off on you.

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