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Genres:
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Adventure /
Comedy /
Drama /
Family /
Sport
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Release:
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Director:
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Frederik Du Chau
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Actors:
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Frankie Muniz,
Gary Bullock,
Matt Stern,
Caspar Poyck,
Thandi Puren,
Morne Visser,
Dawn Matthews,
John Lesley,
Graeme Hawkins,
Tarryn Meaker,
Bruce Greenwood,
Hayden Panettiere,
Wendie Malick,
M. Emmet Walsh,
Mandy Moore
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Duration:
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93 min.
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Rating:
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(5.3/10)109.5
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Plot Summary:
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An abandoned zebra grows up believing he is a racehorse, and, with the forbear of his barnyard friends and a teenage gal, sets out to bring off his hallucinate of racing with thoroughbreds.
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Tags:
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Animation superb!
I didn't know what to expect of this film being this years 'Red Nose film'.
In the cinema were a young couple and their child aged around two or three who was spellbound when the animals talked! Behind me were a middle aged couple who also looked to be enjoying the one liners, laughing a lot throughout the film.
As the story line developed, and was very believable, the time seemed to fly by and it turned out to be a very pleasant experience. The animation was excellent; if you didn?t know better you would swear that the animals were really talking.
One rainy night or one weekend treat yourself to this DVD, no matter what age you or the rest of your audience are you will love it.
Racing Stripes
Live action, CG-enhanced family film about a zebra with horse-racing aspirations. Features the voices of Frankie Muniz, Dustin Hoffman and Whoopi Goldberg
"Step right up if you're horse enough," goes one line in this American/South African production, summing up the challenge for lead character Stripes (voiced by Muniz). A zebra in a world where horses are the norm, he desperately needs to be accepted, and what better way than to excel at racing, a sport normally open only to horses?
Lucky, then, that abandoned circus zebra Stripes is discovered by a farmer who lives next to a racetrack and used to train horses until his wife had a fatal riding accident. It's also lucky that he has a pretty teenage daughter desperate to ride again despite the fears of her g...
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