Ruffian

Ruffian
by Yves Simoneau, David Dwyer

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Actor: Christine Belford, Frank Whaley, Jason Douglas, Laura Bailey, Sam Shepard
Director: David Dwyer, Yves Simoneau
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-12
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: ESPN Original Entertainment

DVD Reviews of Ruffian

DVD Review: Nicely done, but hard to watch the last half hour
Summary: 3 Stars

I was fifteen when the match race took place, and had been an avid horse book reader and loved watching the great thoroughbred horse races on TV. I didn't get to view the race, but heard the terrible news the next day. I actually knew very little about Ruffian, but was intrigued by the little I had heard, that she was incredibly fast, but also very high strung and wild, and that was what caused her to self-destruct when they tried to save her. I satisfied my curiosity in the last year by purchasing the movie. Not knowing the details of her life, I found the movie to be both engrossing and heartbreaking. I cried for the last half hour, as knowing the end of the story made it even more difficult to watch. Not long afterward, I bought Jane Schwartz's excellent book, Burning From The Start. She filled in many of the details the movie wasn't able to cover, and I found that I cared even more for this incredible filly who had won so many hearts in her short life. I recommend both the movie and the book. I get a lump in my throat at the end of the movie and in the special features when they show actual footage of her races and you see this magnificent creature running like the wind.

DVD Review: Ruffian
Summary: 4 Stars

I love horse and I was hoping someone would tell the story to a wonderful horse with a great heart. Every story doesn't have a happy ending!

DVD Review: Burning from the Start!
Summary: 5 Stars

This was a fantastic movie and deserves to be shelved beside the greatest of horse race movies (Seabiscuit, Phar Lap...). This is the story of Ruffian, a filly who won every race and was always out front. She broke every track record with blistering speed and beautiful style. Even the trainer of the great Secretariat said that he thought she was better than him. It's too bad that a match race was set for Ruffian to run against Foolish Pleasure, a colt who won the Kentucky Derby and got second in the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont, to see who would win on the grueling Belmont track to attract the people to the tracks again and to see who would win, the race of the sexes. After coming out of the starting gate she hit the side of it, injuring herself but still kept on running. When she was drawing away from Foolish Pleasure, winning the race to the wire to broke down, while Foolish Pleasure kept on running and "won," the race...
I won't tell you more, but this is a wonderful movie showing us the spirit of these wonderful thoroughbreds at their best! If you love horse racing, and enjoyed watching Dreamer, Seabiscuit or Phar Lap, this is a movie to see. I've read the book Ruffian: Burning from the Start by Jane Schwartz before I shall the movie, and it is very similar and keeps to the story.

DVD Review: Excellent movie............very accurate and compelling.
Summary: 5 Stars

This video very closely folows Jane Schwartz's book, Ruffian, Burning from the Start. The characters are perfect for their roles, the story is very well-developed, and I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Anyone who has read about this beautiful horse will be moved to tears at the end. After reading the book, the visual images enhanced my understanding of the horse, the trainer, and the untimely death of a magnificant animal. I would highly recommend it to anyone............as I would highly recommend reading the book.........first!

DVD Review: Ruffian
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is a great horse movie. The first time I saw it, I cried a lot. I mean A LOT! It is a moving movie and a historical one too. A true story of an amazing horse. I don't necessarily approve of horse racing, I think it's kind of cruel. I don't cry when I watch it now, because I know what's coming. It's well worth watching for the historical value.

Description of Ruffian

(Sports / Doc) Based on the story of the great filly who was undefeated until suffering a fatal breakdown in a match race against Foolish Pleasure at Belmont Park in 1975 . Only lasting two short seasons on the track, Ruffian was unbeaten through her first ten starts - shattering records at nearly every race. It was the much anticipated 11th race, on July 7, 1975 in front of a packed house at Belmont and a television audience of 18 million viewers, that proved to be her last. Hailed as the battle of the sexes, Ruffian went head-to-head with Kentucky Derby winning colt Foolish Pride, in what became the last match race in professional horse racing. Just short of the one mile marker, Ruffian went down hard with a broken leg, ultimately leaving doctors with no other option than to put the horse to sleep. The next day, she was buried at Belmont and to this day remains the only horse granted that honor.

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