Racing Stripes Movie Review 2005

Farmer Nolan Walsh (Greenwood), finds a baby zebra (voiced by Muniz) left by a traveling circus in rural Kentucky and raises him on his farm. Stripes grows up yearning to be a racing horse, just as Channing (Panettiere), the farmer's daughter, yearns to be a jockey. The plot thickens as Walsh is a former horse trainer whose wife died in a riding accident and has since forbidden Channing from racing. Strange combination of "Babe," "National Velvet" and "Charlotte's Web" uses live animals with creepy computer-enhanced mouths for the speaking parts. Kids will enjoy it, but mom and dad might get bored with its routine plotlines.

Distribution

Warner Home Video, Inc., 5775 Linder Canyon Rd., Westlake Village, CA 91362, URL: http://whv.warnerbros.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on DVD
Running time 102 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Horses, Family Comedy, Live Action/Animation Combos, Talking Animals

Screenplay

Frederick Du Chan, David F. Schmidt

Cast

Bruce Greenwood, Hayden Panettiere, M. Emmet Walsh, Wendie Malick

Cinematography

David Eggby

Director

Frederick Du Chan

Music

Mark Isham

Other

Frankie Muniz, Mandy Moore, Michael Clarke Duncan, Joshua Jackson, Jeff Foxworthy, Joe Pantoliano, Michael Rosenbaum, Steve Harvey, David Spade, Snoop Dogg, Fred Dalton Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Whoopi Goldberg, Nico Louw, Deva Anderson, Tom Finan, Jonathan Hely-Hutchinson, Jo Katsaras, Wolf Kroeger

Producer

Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Edward L. McDonnell, Lloyd Phillips, Alcon Entertainment, Warner Bros.