Secretariat
Year: 2010
Genre: Drama
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures, Fast Track Productions, Mayhem Pictures
Director: Randall Wallace
Cast: Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Scott Glenn, Dylan Walsh, Fred Thompson, Margo Martindale
Crew: Randall Wallace (Director), Mike Rich (Screenplay), Mark Ciardi (Producer), Gordon Gray (Producer), Michelle Basterrechea (Producer's Assistant), Nick Glennie-Smith (Original Music Composer)
Runtime: 123 minutes
Release: Aug 20, 2010
IMDb: 7.40/10 by 601 users
Popularity: 4
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 35,000,000
Revenue: 60,300,000

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.
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 'The Littlest Horse Thieves' and 1991's 'Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken'. However, with that noted, 'Secretariat' 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.