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Secretariat is a 2010 biographical film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Mayhem Pictures. The film was directed by Randall Wallace. The film chronicles the life of Secretariat, the 1973 race horse winner of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. Diane Lane portrays Secretariat's owner, Penny Chenery, and John Malkovich plays the part of Secretariat's trainer, Lucien Laurin.
According to one of the film's producers, the horse wrangler who worked on Seabiscuit cast several horses to play Secretariat.[4] The film is based largely on William Nack's book Secretariat: The Making of a Champion. He was also a consultant for the film.[4] Part of the film was shot on location in both Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky for three weeks then moved to Louisiana to reproduce the Triple Crown infields at Evangeline Downs, located in Carencro, Louisiana.[5]
Secretariat has received generally positive reviews. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 67% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 109 reviews, with an average score of 6.2/10. The critical consensus is: Rousing, heartwarming, and squarely traditional, ‘Secretariat’ offers exactly what you'd expect from an inspirational Disney drama---no more, no less. Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert gave this movie four out of four stars claiming that ...this whole movie feels authentic .[6]
Film critic Andrew O'Hehir of Salon.com began some controversy by his review of the film writing that though he enjoyed the movie, that doesn't stop me from believing that in its totality ‘Secretariat’ is a work of creepy, half-hilarious master-race propaganda almost worthy of Leni Riefenstahl, and all the more effective because it presents as a family-friendly yarn about a nice lady and her horse. [8]
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