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Big Spender (2003)
Directed by Paul Schneider
Drama, Family, TV Movie · 1h 30m
Orphan Eddie Burton is not bad, but too many screw-ups land him repeatedly in jail, so his 8-year old son Will, simply abandoned by his 'mother', has nobody else then Eddie's granny. When he hears about a program for convicts working an a foundation's farm for retired race horses, Eddie signs up and proves his talent with Big Spender, who was found completely run down. He nurses the horse back to health, and convinces Jake Cotter, the man in charge, to try a stunt: train him for an new career in jumping, which is a success when his dedicated race jockey Mel Tennant volunteers to ride him again. If he does really well, he may even get a certificate opening the perspective of a real job, which he desperately needs when grandma dies after having him swear he'll get out: the nightmare alternative is to leave Will lingering in the very home that did Eddie no good
Cast
Casper Van Dien
Eddie Burton
Graham Greene
Jake Cotter
Tara Spencer-Nairn
Mel Tennant
Matthew Knight
Will Burton
Corinne Conley
Rita
Randy Butcher
Andre
Eve Crawford
Dr. Reece
Sten Eirik
Tree
Crew
- Director
- Paul Schneider
- Writer
- Jayne Martin
- Director of Photography
- Bill Wong Chung-Piu
- Original Music Composer
- Lou Pomanti
Details
- Release date
- 2003-03-25
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Drama, Family, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America