Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery -- with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin -- manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in twenty-five years.
Secretariat
In this film's world, self-sufficient, strong-minded women like Penny ensures that conforming to "lady-like" standards of behavior take precedence, liberal activism's a naive puppy period your kids experience until they discover the harsh realities of estate taxes, and all faultless Americans are unified in their worship of a miraculous object of vague optimistic abstractions like hope and fighting for this and that. The movie's portrayal of its late '60s, '70s era is a gilded utopia of all things, notwithstanding the truth that the year Secretariat evidently won was the year the Vietnam War ended and the Watergate hearings commenced. A movie so desperate for sources of drama in complete denial of the magnitude of drama in which it takes place?! You almost couldn't pick an era in 20th century America more overwhelmed by divide and broad-spectrum pandemonium. Busing desegregation, the Pentagon Papers, the Chicago Seven, the Weather Underground, Kent State, Stonewall. Regardless of finding ourselves in an infuriated, perilously divided culture, the film wants us to have faith that the real America has been here the whole time, and we can take it back. If we just believe in…a nonexistent past?
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