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Mood:
- Feel GoodHumorousTouching
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Plot:
- UnderdogContests and CompetitionsFriendshipParents and ChildrenAmbitionHopesRivalryFamily Relations more...
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Genres:
- FamilyAdventureComedySport
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Place:
- KentuckyCountryside
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Audience:
- Family OutingKids
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousFantastic
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Racing Stripes, 2005
English
USA
Profile of Racing Stripes
Racing Stripes can be described as feel good, humorous, and touching. The plot revolves around underdogs, contests and competitions, and ambition. The main genres are family, comedy, and adventure. In approach, Racing Stripes is fantastical. It is set, at least in part, in the countryside. It is located in Kentucky. Racing Stripes is well suited for kids and a family outing.
Summary of Racing Stripes
A cute zebra foal gets separated from his circus and is adopted by a horse trainer (Bruce Greenwood) in this live action, talking animal tale. Stripes (voiced by Frankie Muniz) becomes adopted by the trainer's tomboy daughter (Hayden Panettiere)--an aspiring jockey--who subsequently wants to race him in the big leagues. Setbacks include her dad's over-protectiveness (he lost her mom in a horse-racing accident), and the fact that Stripes is a zebra and not a normal horse. Though all the other thoroughbreds turn their noses at this odd-looking interloper, a wizened old pony (Dustin Hoffman) steps in as trainer, and it's time to start prepping for the big race. Other animal characters include a mob "hit-pelican" (voice of Joe Pantoliano), a nurturing goat (voice of Whoopi Goldberg), a rooster (voice of Jeff Foxworthy), and a hound (Snoop Dogg). Mandy Moore does the voice of Stripes' comely mare love interest. Steve Harvey and David Spade are a pair of trash-talking horseflies. Adults will cherish some sly references to older movies, while the kids should get a lot out of the mix of real animals, nonstop gags, and an uplifting message about the importance of not judging a horse by its stripes. Though set in Kentucky, the film was actually lensed in South Africa, with real zebras. M. Emmet Walsh is a welcome addition as a loveable old codger and Wendie Malick is the evil race track owner.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 8 January 2005 |
| Runtime: | 102 min |
Cast and Crew
as Channing Walsh
as Nolan Walsh
as Stripes
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- by: Allison Benedikt
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- by: Scott Brown
