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The World's Fastest Indian

  • 20052005
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h 7m
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The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
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    • Director
      • Roger Donaldson
    • Writer
      • Roger Donaldson
    • Stars
      • Anthony Hopkins
      • Diane Ladd
      • Iain Rea
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    • Director
      • Roger Donaldson
    • Writer
      • Roger Donaldson
    • Stars
      • Anthony Hopkins
      • Diane Ladd
      • Iain Rea
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    • 276User reviews
    • 127Critic reviews
    • 68Metascore
    • Awards
      • 11 wins & 6 nominations

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    Anthony Hopkins
    Anthony Hopkins
    • Burt Munro
    Diane Ladd
    Diane Ladd
    • Ada
    Iain Rea
    • George
    Tessa Mitchell
    • Sarah
    Aaron Murphy
    • Tom
    Tim Shadbolt
    • Frank
    Annie Whittle
    • Fran
    Greg Johnson
    • Duncan
    Antony Starr
    Antony Starr
    • Jeff
    Kate Sullivan
    • Doris
    Craig Hall
    Craig Hall
    • Antarctic Angel
    Jim Bowman
    • Cook
    Alison Bruce
    Alison Bruce
    • Doctor
    Phoebe Falconer
    • Janice Springfield
    Charles Pierard
    Charles Pierard
    • Bank Manager
    Barry Ryan
    • Burt's Neighbour
    Bill Richardson
    • Burt's Neighbour
    Mick Rose
    Mick Rose
    • Brian
    • Director
      • Roger Donaldson
    • Writer
      • Roger Donaldson
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    • Trivia
      Burt Munro's children visited the set one day, when, according to writer, producer, and director Roger Donaldson, "Tony (Sir Anthony Hopkins) was having a particularly good Burt day." His performance was so authentic that it moved them to tears.
    • Goofs
      Burt talks about his twin brother and tells Tom a story about how he died as a youngster. The real Burt Munro had a twin sister who died at birth.
    • Quotes

      Burt Munro: If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.

      Tom: [nods earnestly] What type of vegetable?

      Burt Munro: Hah, I don't know... a cabbage. Yeah, a cabbage.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Daily Show: Anthony Hopkins (2006)
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    8/10
    A decent tribute
    Invercargill, New Zealand, is noted for being the country's southernmost city and for having the least hours of sunshine and the most number of rain days of any NZ large town. It is also famous for being the home town of a gritty old codger called Burt Munroe who set a number of world motor cycle speed records (one of which still stands) in the 1960s at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, riding a 1920 Indian Scout motor cycle.

    Roger Donaldson, one of the midwives to the renaissance of the Kiwi film industry in the 1980s ("Sleeping Dogs", "Smash Palace") and latterly Hollywood director ("Thirteen Days"), made "Offerings to the God of Speed" a documentary on Burt in 1972, when he was still alive. This dramatization of the same story – little man triumphs though sheer grit and determination – is a triumph for his star. Anthony Hopkins is good at quirky curmudgeons but here he manages to exude a little homespun charm as well. His Burt has the happy knack of getting people to help him rather than shaft him. Officialdom melts at his approach and he is even attractive to the ladies, as Burt would have put it. It's Tony Hopkin's film and he carries it off in fine style. I'm not sure about the accent which is more northern British than southern NZ but it hardly matters as the Americans in the film can scarcely understand it anyway.

    The rest of the cast were all adequate and Aaron Murphy as Tom the kid from next door was actually able to steal some scenes. I also noticed an old acquaintance in a minor role as Frank the bike club president - Tim Shadbolt, student radical of the late 60s and now mayor of Invercargill. Burt had no money but he did get community support at various times, so Invercargillians can take some pride in his achievements.

    Which brings me to what I think is the hole in this account. The Indian motorcycle, which was a light machine used for dispatch and scout work in World War One, had a top speed, according to the makers, of 57 mph. It had a V-2 cylinder block design and a decent capacity of just under 1000cc. Burt was a backyard mechanic who constantly tinkered with it, even casting his own pistons, which blew with monotonous regularity. Somehow he got the thing to exceed 200mph. No doubt the streamlining helped, but he must have modified the original design radically. Donaldson presents this without any explanation. Maybe Burt wouldn't tell him, or maybe Donaldson thought too much tech stuff would put the punters off. It wouldn't have taken much to explain it.

    As others have said, this is very much a "feel-good" movie and I think, as an ex-resident of NZ, evocative of some of the more admirable aspects of the NZ character – the optimism, the friendliness, the capacity for improvisation and the willingness to rise to a challenge, and even occasionally to take risks. Burt had a lot in common with those pioneer settlers from Scotland who arrived in Southland 100 years earlier and founded Invercargill, a place the Maori sensibly regarded as a trifle too chilly to actually live in (though they visited for the oysters and muttonbirds). But he also had some home-grown attributes as well. .
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    • Release date
      • March 24, 2006 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • New Zealand
      • Japan
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Tay Đua Huyền Thoại
    • Filming locations
      • Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA
    • Production companies
      • OLC / Rights Entertainment
      • Tanlay
      • New Zealand Film Production Fund
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    • Budget
      • $25,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $5,128,124
    • Gross worldwide
      • $18,299,138
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      2 hours 7 minutes
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    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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