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Production Year: 2005 - Drama - Director: Roger Donaldson - Original Language: English - Classification: TBA more

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The life and triumph of Burt Munro, the elderly Kiwi man who, at the far from sprightly age of 68, broke motorcycle racing records in Utah, has fuelled director Roger Donaldson's...
more...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 colourful characters that include a wizened Native American and a generous drag queen, both of whom help the eccentric elder on his quixotic quest.





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Go, Burt, Go!
Review of The World's Fastest Indian DVD by IzzyS

Advantages: Interesting story, good performance from Hopkins, funny and touching
Disadvantages: Not too fast paced for those expecting a movie full of constant racing footage, I suppose

...released a few years ago. The movie sounded like something rather different to the kind of movie that he normally does, being a more light hearted family movie. From what I read/heard about it, it sounded like a good movie and I liked the fact that its based on a true story, an uplifting true story by the sounds of things, so I thought I'd add it to my rental list, as I do like a good, well made, true story movie! - Main Credits (non-actors, ... Read review

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04.04.2008
Feel good movie
Review of The World's Fastest Indian DVD by atytyut2434

Advantages: great story
Disadvantages: none really

...movie! This a review of the DVD version. Take the wonderful Sir Anthony Hopkins who is a fellow Welshman & we share the same birthday! Have him playing Burt Munro, a man who wants to ride his 1920's Indian Motorcycle faster than 200 mph ot the Bonneville Saltflats. He isn't a young man, in his 70's and his bike is rebuilt and held together with anything he can find. This is the story of his trip to America and across the country in his quest to ride ... Read review

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17.07.2008
Crazy old man on a motorbike
Review of The World's Fastest Indian DVD by SteveF48

Advantages: Excellent plot and acting, it has it all: adventure, pathos, tragedy, humour
Disadvantages: None

...movie! It is one of the best stories I have ever seen on film. It's the tale of one man's obsession with making his vintage motorcycle go faster than any other. Burt Munro is an old age pensioner who has spent over 25 years tuning and modifying a 1920 Indian motorcycle to make it go faster than any other in its class. Less than 1000cc engine capacity if you're interested. At the age of 69 he has the opportunity to take his motorcycle to the Bonneville ... Read review

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