Harness Racing Movie Released
"Amazing Racer", a new movie set in a harness racing setting, has been released and is available on DVD.
Amazing Racer, which stars Daryl Hannah, Clare Forlani, Julianne Michelle, Louis Gossett Jr. and Eric Roberts, was filmed at and around The Meadows in southwestern Pennsylvania in 2008 and originally titled "Shannon’s Rainbow".
It tells the story of a teenage girl who finds the mother she never knew, befriends a wise horse trainer and learns to overcome hardships and emotional trauma by helping the trainer, played by Louis Gossett, Jr., train a filly named Rainbow.
A trailer of the movie, which is rated PG, can be seen below.
Canadian residents can order the movie online through amazon.ca
I watched this film because I
I watched this film because I am a sucker for these kind of stories. The acting was alright, but if you are going to make a movie about harness racing, at least make it more realistic. The language and terms they used when training were hardly what you hear on the backstretch. They threw this girl in the cart for a training mile without even jogging a horse. She races in some cup race, when did she get her driving license? I'm sure harness people that watch this film, will be shaking their heads.