Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Louise Lombard, Said Taghmaoui, Peter Mensah, J.K. Simmons, Zuleikha Robinson

"Hidalgo" is an epic action-adventure and one man's journey of personal redemption. Based on an incredible true story, a legend comes to life when the greatest rider the American west has ever known is pitted against the world's finest Arabian horses and racers. Onetime cowboy Frank T. Hopkins (VIGGO MORTENSEN) was once billed as a living legend, but in fact the glory days for Hopkins and his beloved horse, a mustang named Hidalgo, are long past. Outcasts from their own land, Frank and Hidalgo both have something to prove when Hopkins became the first American invited to enter the Ocean of Fire, a gruelling 3,000-mile survival race across punishing terrain of the Arabian Desert. With his competition vowing victory against a cowboy unprepared for the desert riding a second-class horse, the race becomes not only a matter of pride and honour, but a fight for survival as they attempt the impossible.

Released:
UK/Ireland: 16th April 2004
Certificate: tbc
Director: Joe Johnston

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