Secretariat, the story of the racehorse that won the Triple Crown in 1973 and his owner, Penny Chenery, opens this coming Friday, October 8. Randall Wallace is the director. Diane Lane plays Chenery; John Malkovich is Lucien Laurin, Secretariat's trainer; and Amanda Michalka plays Chenery's daughter, Kate Chenery Tweedy.
The movie is based in part on Secretariat's Meadow: The Land, the Family, the Legend by Tweedy and Leeanne Ladin with a foreword by Chenery (Dementi Milestone Publishing, $29.95, 9780982701904/098270190X), published last month. The book includes photos from Chenery's collection and traces the family's history and its horse farm, the Meadow. The book will be featured by Disney at the movie's openings.
The movie is also based on Secretariat: The Making of a Champion by Bill Nack (Hyperion, $16.99, 9781401324018/1401324010).
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Tamara Drewe, based on Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy and Posy Simmonds' graphic novel Tamara Drewe (Mariner Books, $16.95, 9780547154121/0547154127), opens this coming Friday, October 8. Gemma Arterton stars as a London columnist who returns to her home in the English countryside.