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Mood:
- Feel GoodTouchingHumorousWittyCaptivatingUplifting
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Plot:
- Contests and CompetitionsFollow Your DreamObsessive QuestHuman SpiritAgainst the OddsAmbitionChases and RacesHopes more...
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Genres:
- DramaAdventure
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century60s
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Place:
- CaliforniaNew Zealand
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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Style:
- On the Road
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- BiographyBased on True Story
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- Semi SeriousRealistic
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- Drugs/Alcohol
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The World's Fastest Indian, 2005
English
New Zealand, USA, Switzerland, Japan
Profile of The World's Fastest Indian
The World's Fastest Indian can be described as feel good, touching, and uplifting. The plot revolves around going against the odds, following your dreams, and an obsessive quest. The main genres are drama and adventure. In terms of style, The World's Fastest Indian has a road movie structure. In approach, it is realistic. It is located in New Zealand and California. The World's Fastest Indian takes place in the 1960s. It is drawn from a biography and originally a true story. The movie has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that The World's Fastest Indian involves drugs/alcohol.
Summary of The World's Fastest Indian
The life and triumph of Burt Munro, the elderly Kiwi man who, at the far from spritely age of 68, broke motorcycle racing records in Utah, has fueled director Roger Donaldson's creative energy for years. In the early 1970s, just a few years after Munro's incredible triumph, Donaldson directed OFFERINGS TO THE GOD OF SPEED, a documentary on the sensational senior. Here, with the help of the fine actors Anthony Hopkins and Diane Ladd, the director brings the story to vivid, dramatic life yet again, constructing a gripping and inspirational narrative.
Hopkins's Munro is a rich and magnetic character, a man who wears his notable physical ailments (which include an embarrassing prostate condition and deficient eardrums) like quirky idiosyncrasies rather than debilitating defects. An active playboy, Munro is a lovable character in his small New Zealand town, an attractively unique old man with a zest for life and a love of his vintage motorcycle--a bright red 1920 Indian model. After racing his own times obsessively every day, he becomes determined to live out his dream of participating in the annual Speed Week motorcycle event at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. Through local support and innovative fundraising, Munro is finally able to afford the long nautical journey across the world to Mormon-land and, beating all the incredible odds, not only enter the race but break its records with a jaw-dropping speed of 201 miles an hour. Besides telling a classic tale of individual triumph, THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN offers a sociological look at the American West of the late 1960s, an iconic landscape peppered with colorful characters that include a wizened Native American and a generous drag queen, both of whom help the eccentric elder on his quixotic quest.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | New Zealand, USA, Switzerland, Japan |
| Release date: | 7 December 2005 |
| Runtime: | 127 min |
Cast and Crew
as Burt Munro
as Ada
as Fernando
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Critics Reviews
Chicago Tribune
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- by: Michael Wilmington
TV Guide
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- by: Ken Fox
Users Reviews
- 30.August.2010
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- by: JNET
- JNET rated this movie
0/10
- 19.March.2009
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- by: Vic
- Vic rated this movie
8/10Great
