[NFBofSC] Tonights Feature Presentation!

Fri May 5 10:04:31 UTC 2023

Happy May!!!!

Please share with everyone! 

We have some exciting events for everyone to join the NFB of SC this month!
If you enjoy audio described movies, trivia, technology presentations,
getting fit or just talking about technology! Well, the NFB of SC is here
for you!!!!!! Be sure and read all the way to the bottom of this message to
read about the new Viewers Choice movie selections for June! 

The below listed events take place on the NFB of SC Zoom platform and all
times are eastern. 

Friday, May 5, 2023 at 8:00 PM Seabiscuit(Audio Described movie)

NFB of SC Zoom

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Meeting ID: 803 254 3777

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Seabiscuit

In the early 20th century, as America enters the automobile age, Charles S.
Howard opens a bicycle shop in San Francisco. He is soon selling
automobiles, becoming the largest car dealer in California and one of the
Bay Area's richest men. In the wake of the Great Depression, Canadian John
"Red" Pollard's family is financially ruined, and he is sent to live with a
horse trainer. Years pass and Pollard becomes a jockey, but amateur boxing
leaves him blind in one eye.

After their young son is killed in an automobile accident, Howard's wife
leaves him. He obtains a divorce in Mexico, where Pollard is struggling to
make his mark as a jockey. Howard meets and marries Marcela Zabala. When he
acquires a stable of racehorses, he hires itinerant horseman Tom Smith as
his trainer. Smith convinces him to buy a colt called Seabiscuit. Though a
grandson of the great Man o' War and trained by the renowned James E.
Fitzsimmons, Seabiscuit is viewed as small, lazy, and unmanageable. Smith
witnesses Pollard's similarly temperamental spirit, and hires him as
Seabiscuit's jockey.

Under Smith's innovative training, Seabiscuit becomes the most successful
racehorse on the West Coast and an underdog hero to the public. Howard
issues a challenge to Samuel D. Riddle, owner of the East Coast champion and
Triple Crown-winning racehorse War Admiral, but Riddle dismisses California
racing as inferior. In the prestigious Santa Anita Handicap, Seabiscuit
takes the lead, but Pollard's impaired vision prevents him from noticing
another horse surging up on the outside. Losing by a nose, Pollard admits
his partial blindness to Smith.

Howard declares that Pollard will remain Seabiscuit's jockey, and rallies
public support for a match race with War Admiral. Riddle agrees, on the
condition that they race with a rope and bell instead of a starting gate.
With Seabiscuit at a disadvantage, Smith trains the horse to break fast at
the sound of the bell. As the race approaches, Pollard severely fractures
his leg in a riding accident. Informed he may never walk again, let alone
ride, he recommends that his friend and skilled jockey George Woolf ride
Seabiscuit, advising him on the horse's handling and behavior from his
hospital bed.

The highly anticipated "race of the century" draws a sellout crowd, with 40
million more people listening on the radio. Seabiscuit takes an early lead
until the far turn; following Pollard's advice, Woolf lets Seabiscuit look
War Admiral in the eye before surging ahead, and Seabiscuit wins by four
lengths, delighting the nation. A few months later, Seabiscuit injures his
leg. Pollard, still recovering from his own injured leg, tends to the horse
as they both heal. When Seabiscuit is fit enough to race again, Howard
brings him back to the Santa Anita Handicap, but is reluctant to allow
Pollard to ride and risk crippling himself for life. At the urging of Woolf
and Marcela, Howard relents.

Pollard, using a self-made leg brace, finds himself and Seabiscuit facing
Woolf in the race. Seabiscuit drops far behind the field until Woolf pulls
his horse alongside Pollard, allowing Seabiscuit a good look at his mount.
With Woolf's encouragement, Seabiscuit surges ahead and passes the others.
Heading for the finish line several lengths ahead, Pollard explains that the
story of Seabiscuit is not merely of three men who fixed a broken-down
horse, but that Seabiscuit fixed them and, in a way, they fixed one another.

Cast

Tobey Maguire as John "Red" Pollard

Michael Angarano as Young John "Red" Pollard

Jeff Bridges as Charles S. Howard

Chris Cooper as Tom Smith

Elizabeth Banks as Marcela Zabala-Howard

Gary Stevens as George Woolf

William H. Macy as "Tick Tock" McLaughlin

Eddie Jones as Samuel Riddle

Michael O'Neill as Mr. Pollard

David McCullough as The Narrator

Viewers Choice

The viewers will choose our 2nd movie for the month of June. Below is a list
of movies to choose from. I ask that you send your vote to
cookcafe at sc.rr.com <mailto:cookcafe at sc.rr.com>  or text me at 803 260 1292.
The movie with the most votes will be shown in June! All votes must be in by
the end of May. 

Purple Rain

Manchester By The Sea

Mask

Steve Cook

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