Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, History, Sport
Release Year: 2010
Country: USA
Runtime: 123
Rating: 8.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Randall Wallace
Sound: Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
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Writing by: Mike Rich – (written by)
William Nack – (book "Secretariat: The Making of a Champion") (suggestion)

Produced by: Jayne Armstrong – associate producer
Mark Ciardi – producer
Pete DeStefano – producer
Gordon Gray – producer
Bill Johnson – executive producer
Todd Y. Murata – production executive
Mike Rich – executive producer
Andrew Wallace – associate producer

Cast: Diane Lane – Penny Chenery
John Malkovich – Lucien Laurin
Dylan Walsh – Jack Tweedy
Margo Martindale – Miss Ham
Nelsan Ellis – Eddie Sweat
Otto Thorwarth – Ronnie Turcotte
Fred Dalton Thompson – Bull Hancock
James Cromwell – Ogden Phipps
Scott Glenn – Chris Chenery
Michael Harding – E.V. Benjamin (as Mike Harding)
Richard Fullerton – Robert Kleburg

Music: Nick Glennie-Smith
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Plot Outline:

Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.

Plot: Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery — with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin — manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in twenty-five years.

Movie Quotes:

Goofs: We know about 11 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: In a scene set in 1969, Bull Hancock (Fred Dalton Thompson) describes Lucien Laurin (John Malkovich) saying that he “dresses like Super Fly.” The movie “Super Fly” was not released until 1972.

Trivia: There are 15 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• Not only did Secretariat set the record for the fastest time at the Kentucky Derby (1:59 2/5), each of his quarter-mile splits were faster than the preceding one, which means he was still accelerating at the end of the race. His split times were: 25 1/5, 24, 23 4/5, 23 2/5, and 23.
• Secretariat's time in the Kentucky Derby is still the record for that race (1:59 2/5). Only one other horse has won it in under two minutes (2001, Monarchos, 1:59.97). Sham, second to Secretariat, may have run it in under two minutes, but there is no official time for him.
• The racing scenes in 'Secretariat' are all recreations except one: the Preakness which is seen on an old TV in the Tweedy family den. That's historical footage of the actual race.