The Ruffian movie
 

It will air on June 9th at 9:00 pm on ABC.Sam Shepherd is starring.I'm assuming he's playing the role of Frank Whitely.

Early word is that it is beyond awful..

That would be correct. :)

Some person was on a message board talking about being an extra in it and said he was being a jerk around them during filming. Of course who knows what the real circumstances were. I heard this one guy call Mickey Rooney a real horse's butt all because he doesn't like to shake hands (probably a mixture of the age thing and the germ thing) and the guy just came up after an escalator and lied to him how he was a big fan when he really couldn't care less. Mickey probably knew bs when he heard it and apparently he ignored the guy.

Steve wouldn't suprise me at all.Hollywood has a way of doing that with true stories.They should of used me as an extra.I could've told them where i was her first start back as a 3 year old.Dragged a bench down the apron at Aqueduct and was right at the 1/16 pole rooting her home.

Thanks for the heads-up, Steve. I will now refrain from "pre-ordering" it from Amazon until I see it.

I know one of the characters from the film who disagrees with that assessment.

i won't watch, not my idea of how to spend an evening. hard enough reading the book about her.

but then, i'm no movie person--most don't appeal to me.

Well being that they are actually in the film may have something to do with their assessment, no?

Ya think?

" Well the movie sucked and that Sam Shepard was mean but I was great in it"

Please give me the word that follows awful

He's not in it.....he is a main character in the movie being played by someone else.

With a character called, "Saratoga Guy" (no relation) it can't be all bad! (Credited above Dinny Phipps!)



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499558/

I wondered if it was bad since I thought it was going to air earlier in the year- June is just after sweeps month. But I also thought it would air on ESPN, so the fact that they chose to run it on ABC itself is a big deal, I think (unless that was always the plan; I don't know).

I could see how it would be tough to make a strong movie out of this- there's no real dramatic arc to the story- she's perfect until her last race. No ups and downs within her career. Maybe if one tried to portray it as a sense of impending doom- nothing this brilliant could stay with us for long, or something, but otherwise I'm not sure how to make her story follow a dramatic structure. Where's the second act reversal? :)

That said, I'm still very much looking forward to it.

I was told in April 2006 it was going to be aired during Belmont week on ABC.

It might be an awful movie, but I think one should watch the movie and then make that judgement on their own.

This is a bad story for horse racing.....

It's also hard to watch it if you know what's going to happen

Jesus Crist...let's get together and mope for an hour and a half

We all knew what was going to happen in Phar Lap, but it was a good movie anyway because of the examination of the personalities involved.

well...it's a horrid ending, but up til the end, i think she was a great story for racing. we can't all have happy endings i guess.

but i still won't be watching.