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Overview

User Rating:
7.3/10   6,456 votes
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Director:
Bill Paxton
Writers (WGA):
Mark Frost (book)
Mark Frost (screenplay)
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Release Date:
30 September 2005 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | History | Sport more
Plot:
A golf drama based on the true story of the 1913 US Open, where 20-year-old Francis Ouimet defeated his idol, 1900 US Open champion, Englishman, Harry Vardon. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(19 articles)
[DVD Review] The Greatest Game Ever Played
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a Truly Moving Picture more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
James Paxton ... Young Harry Vardon
Tom Rack ... Black Top Hatted Man
Armand Laroche ... Black Top Hatted Man
Peter Hurley ... Black Top Hatted Man

Gregory Terlecki ... Black Top Hatted Man

Jonathan Higgins ... Embry Wallis
Matthew Knight ... Young Francis Ouimet
Luke Askew ... Alec Campbell

Amanda Tilson ... Young Sarah Wallis

Elias Koteas ... Arthur Ouimet
Jamie Merling ... Young Louise Ouimet
Eugenio Esposito ... Young Raymond Ouimet

Marnie McPhail ... Mary Ouimet
Stephen Dillane ... Harry Vardon
Robin Wilcock ... Bernard Darwin
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG for some brief mild language.
Runtime:
120 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Certification:
Australia:G | Singapore:PG | UK:PG | Argentina:Atp | USA:PG (certificate #41843) | Germany:o.Al. | Denmark:7 | Netherlands:AL | Canada:G (all jurisdictions)
Filming Locations:
Kahnawake, Québec, Canada more
Company:
Fairway Films more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The real Francis Ouimet and Eddie Lowery remained life long friends. When Ouimet died in 1967, Lowery was one of the pall-bearers. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: Eddie Lowery uses the phrase "easy peasy, lemon squeezy". This phrase is primarily a British phrase and didn't come into common use until the late 1970's. more
Quotes:
Lord Northcliffe: [notices Eddie caddying for Francis] What's that carrying his bag... a pygmy? more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: (2005-09-23)" (2005) more

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91 out of 129 people found the following comment useful:-
a Truly Moving Picture, 4 September 2005
9/10
Author: tollini from United States

I saw this film on September 1st, 2005 in Indianapolis. I am one of the judges for the Heartland Film Festival that screens films for their Truly Moving Picture Award. A Truly Moving Picture "...explores the human journey by artistically expressing hope and respect for the positive values of life." Heartland gave that award to this film.

This is a story of golf in the early part of the 20th century. At that time, it was the game of upper class and rich "gentlemen", and working people could only participate by being caddies at country clubs. With this backdrop, this based-on-a-true-story unfolds with a young, working class boy who takes on the golf establishment and the greatest golfer in the world, Harry Vardon.

And the story is inspirational. Against all odds, Francis Ouimet (played by Shia LaBeouf of "Holes") gets to compete against the greatest golfers of the U.S. and Great Britain at the 1913 U.S. Open. Francis is ill-prepared, and has a child for a caddy. (The caddy is hilarious and motivational and steals every scene he appears in.) But despite these handicaps, Francis displays courage, spirit, heroism, and humility at this world class event.

And, we learn a lot about the early years of golf; for example, the use of small wooden clubs, the layout of the short holes, the manual scoreboard, the golfers swinging with pipes in their mouths, the terrible conditions of the greens and fairways, and the play not being canceled even in torrential rain.

This film has stunning cinematography and art direction and editing. And with no big movie stars, the story is somehow more believable.

This adds to the inventory of great sports movies in the vein of "Miracle" and "Remember the Titans."

FYI - There is a Truly Moving Pictures web site where there is a listing of past winners going back 70 years.

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