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
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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.