Secretariat is an upcoming 2010 American film currently filming for Walt Disney Pictures and Mayhem Pictures. The film is being directed by Randall Wallace. Diane Lane portrays Secretariat's owner, Penny Chenery, and John Malkovich plays the part of Secretariat's trainer, Lucien Laurin.
The film is scheduled to be released on October 8, 2010. Filming is on location in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky and around Lafayette, Louisiana.
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Secretariat is an upcoming 2010 American film currently filming for Walt Disney Pictures and Mayhem Pictures. The film is being directed by Randall Wallace. Diane Lane portrays Secretariat's owner, Penny Chenery, and John Malkovich plays the part of Secretariat's trainer, Lucien Laurin.
The film is scheduled to be released on October 8, 2010. Filming is on location in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky and around Lafayette, Louisiana.
The film tells the story of the Penny Chenery and her United States' Hall of Fame racehorse, Secretariat who, along with Seattle Slew (1977) and Affirmed (1978) going into 2010, is one of three horses in the past 36 years to have won the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. The story centers around Penny Chenery who took over the financially troubled Meadow Stable from her ailing father and guided the horse through his Triple Crown season. Other key characters are trainer Lucien Laurin and jockey Ron Turcotte.
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