The weekly film screening at the American Center under the category of ‘Best Picture Nominees’ will show Gary Ross’ ‘Seabiscuit’ movie which was nominated for seven Oscars and won four.
The film based on the best selling book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand will be screened at 6 pm on June 16 at American Centre, Colombo-3.
The story recounts the life and racing career of Seabiscuit, an undersized and overlooked thoroughbred race horse whose unexpected successes made him a hugely popular sensation in the United States near the end of the Great Depression. The story follows the redemption of the three men as they rise from troubled times to achieve fame and success through their association with the horse.
In need of money, the family leaves Red with a horse groomer. Eventually becoming a jockey, Red makes extra money through illegal boxing matches, which have left him almost blind in one eye.
Charles Howard is shown as a clerk in a bicycle shop when he gets asked by a passing motorist to repair his automobile, a technology which has recently been introduced. Some years later, Howard is the largest car dealer in California and one of the Bay Area’s richest men.
However, his life takes a turn for the worse when his son accidentally dies and also wife leaves him. On a trip to Mexico in order to obtain a divorce and to drown his sorrows, Howard runs into Tom Smith, a horse trainer who has been living as a hobo during the depression. Seeing Smith tame an aggressive horse, Howard hires himto take care of his newly acquired stable of horses. Later, Smith sees Red Pollard, who had been working as a stable boy, calm another agressive horse and decides to make him a jockey. The film then follows the three men as they begin to race Seabiscuit. |
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