It is the story Johnny “Red” Pollard (Tobey Maguire), a young jockey whose spirit had been broken; Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges), a millionaire who had lost everything; Tom Smith (Chris Cooper), a cowboy whose world was vanishing; and the down-and-out racehorse that took them and the entire nation on the ride of a lifetime. During the years of the Great Depression, this was the horse that became a hero.

The odds were incredible, the dream was impossible...and somehow, it actually happened.

From Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Gary Ross comes the motion picture adaptation of the story that transfixed a nation from one of the most beloved and widely-read non­fiction hooks of the past decade: Seabiscuit.

Screenwriter-director-producer Ross assembled an impressive list of seasoned and accomplished filmmaking talent, both in front of and behind the camera. Joining Maguire, Bridges and Cooper in the cast are Elizabeth Banks (Catch Me If You Can) as Marcela Howard, Charles Howard's wife; Hall of Fame Jockey Gary Stevens (in his motion picture debut) as George "The Iceman" Woolf, and William H. Macy (Jurassic Park III) as reporter "Tick-Tock" McGlaughlin.

Producing, along with Gary Ross, are prolific and Oscar-nominated filmmakers Kathleen Kennedy (E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, A.I. Artificial Intelligence) and Frank Marshall (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Hook), and Jane Sindell. The film is based on the best-selling book by Laura Hillenbrand, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum. Tobey Maguire, Allison Thomas and Robin Bissell serve as executive producers.