Browse Movies : Sports : D : "true story"

Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) was once a great horseman, whose gifts as a trainer were now being wasted on making other men's fortunes. Sonya was a great horse whose promising future on the racetrack was suddenly cut short by a career-ending broken leg. Considered as good as dead to her owner, who also happens to be Ben's boss, Sonya is given to Ben as severance pay, along with his walking papers. Now, it will take the unwavering faith and determination of Ben's young daughter, Cale (Dakota Fanning), to bring these two damaged souls together in a quest for a seemingly impossible goal: to win the Breeders' Cup Classic.

Moe Norman is injured in a sledding accident that turns him into a loner whose repetitive phrases and nervous laughter is off-putting. The repetitive behavior proves to be an asset when he develops an unorthodox short golf swing that enables him to place the ball with uncanny accuracy. Tiger Woods would later say that Norman and Ben Hogan were the two who truly "owned" their golf swings.