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A great American story from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Gary Ross, Seabiscuit stars Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges and Chris Cooper. Based on the inspiring true story of three men a jockey, a trainer and a businessman and the undersized racehorse who took the entire nation on the ride of a lifetime. This breathtaking film achievement is a must-see moviegoing experience (Chicago Sun-Times) and a flat-out great movie! (Larry King Live, CNN)

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Proving that truth is often greater than fiction, the handsome production of Seabiscuit offers a healthy alternative to Hollywood's staple diet of mayhem. With superior production values at his disposal, writer-director Gary Ross (Pleasantville) is a bit too reverent toward Laura Hillenbrand's captivating bestseller, unnecessarily using archival material--and David McCullough's familiar PBS-styled narration--to pay Ken Burns-like tribute to Hillenbrand's acclaimed history of Seabiscuit, the knobby-kneed thoroughbred who "came from behind" in the late 1930s to win the hearts of Depression-weary Americans. That caveat aside, Ross's adaptation retains much of the horse-and-human heroism that Hillenbrand so effectively conveyed; this is a classically styled "legend" movie like The Natural, which was also heightened by a lushly sentimental Randy Newman score. Led by Tobey Maguire as Seabiscuit's hard-luck jockey, the film's first-rate cast is uniformly excellent, including William H. Macy as a wacky trackside announcer who fills this earnest film with a much-needed spirit of fun. --Jeff Shannon

• Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
• MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.12 ounces
• Director : Gary Ross
• Media Format : Blu-ray, AC-3, Multiple Formats, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, Dubbed, NTSC, DTS Surround Sound, Dolby
• Run time : 2 hours and 21 minutes
• Release date : March 13, 2011
• Actors : Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, Gary Stevens
• Dubbed: : Spanish, French
• Subtitles: : Spanish, French, English
• Producers : Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Gary Ross, Jane Sindell
• Language : English (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1), French (DTS 5.1), Spanish (DTS 5.1)
• Studio : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
• Writers : Gary Ross
• Number of discs : 1