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Secrétariat

Secrétariat (2010)

★ 7.41 1h 56m Drame

L'histoire de Penny Chenery, la "First lady of racing" qui suite aux problèmes de santé de son père, décide, à la grande surprise de tous, de prendre la direction des écuries familiales. N'ayant aucune expérience dans ce milieu d'hommes, la jeune femme peine à s'imposer dans le milieu hippique. Pourtant, grâce à l'aide de Lucien, un entraîneur canadien, et de son cheval Secrétariat, Penny se lance en 1973 dans la plus importante course hippique, le prix Triple Crown.

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Overview

L'histoire de Penny Chenery, la "First lady of racing" qui suite aux problèmes de santé de son père, décide, à la grande surprise de tous, de prendre la direction des écuries familiales. N'ayant aucune expérience dans ce milieu d'hommes, la jeune femme peine à s'imposer dans le milieu hippique. Pourtant, grâce à l'aide de Lucien, un entraîneur canadien, et de son cheval Secrétariat, Penny se lance en 1973 dans la plus importante course hippique, le prix Triple Crown.

Cast

  • Diane Lane as Penny Chenery
  • John Malkovich as Lucien Laurin
  • Scott Glenn as Chris Chenery
  • Dylan Walsh as Jack Tweedy
  • Fred Thompson as Bull Hancock
  • Margo Martindale as Miss Ham
  • Nelsan Ellis as Eddie Sweat
  • James Cromwell as Ogden Phipps
  • Otto Thorwarth as Ronnie Turcotte
  • Michael Harding as E.V. Benjamin

Reviews

Andres Gomez 2021-06-23
★ 7
Quite decent story telling. Not too big pretensions and nice performance from a well chosen cast.

The story is quite stereotypical but it is well done.
r96sk 2021-06-23
★ 7
I thoroughly enjoyed the performances of Diane Lane and John Malkovich, the film itself may not match those two but it still makes for a pleasant time.

This is another sports drama from Disney and another film about horses, of which they have been a fair amount down the decades from the studio. It fails to reach the (very) high levels of 1976's <em>'The Littlest Horse Thieves'</em> and 1991's <em>'Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken'</em>.

However, with that noted, <em>'Secretariat'</em> still produces a fine time. Lane and Malkovich are very good together, Lane particularly stands out. Margo Martindale is involved once more, playing a sweet and lovely character as she always does - she's perfect for those roles. Nice to see James Cromwell, also.

The cinematography is solid, as is the pacing of events. It does feel a little light of serious story at times, but that's hard to avoid when you're dealing with something as interesting but repetitive as horse racing. In the end, it's a nice story about Secretariat and Penny Chenery.