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Mood:
- TouchingUplifting
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Plot:
- Athlete's LifeContests and CompetitionsRise To the TopAmbitionChases and RacesLifestyleMind and SoulDealing With Death more...
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Genres:
- DramaSport
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- Australia
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Based on:
- Based on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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The Cup, 2011
English
Australia
Profile of The Cup
The mood of The Cup is touching and uplifting. The plot centers around a rise to the top, the life of an athlete, and contests and competitions. It is a drama and sports movie. In approach, The Cup is serious and realistic. The setting is Australia. It happens in contemporary times. The Cup is originally a true story.
Summary of The Cup
The Melbourne Cup is called The Race That Stops a Nation, but never in the history of Australia's 150-year-old Thoroughbred Classic has there been so dramatic a contest as the 2002 running. The Cup follows the world's finest horsemen as they plot their paths across the globe - from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia - and into the Winners Circle of the richest and most prestigious two-mile handicap. But the heart of this true story is a young Australian jockey, Damien Oliver, who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident just days before the great race. To make matters worse, the same fate claimed Damien and Jason Oliver's father decades before. Following his brother's death, Damien suffers through an almost endless series of discouraging defeats only to triumph on one of sport's greatest stages in one of the most thrilling finales in all of sport.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Australia |
| Release date: | 13 October 2011 |
Cast and Crew
as Dermot Weld
as Jenny Smith
as Dave Phillips
as Bart Cummings
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