NASCAR: The Ride of Their Lives
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Product Description
This NASCAR(r) Ride of Their Lives DVD is a moving and, at times, adrenaline-filled journey chronicling the memorable personalities and moments of America's revered and renowned home-grown sports brand. Narrated by Academy Award(r)-winning actor and director Kevin Costner, the history of NASCAR(r) is presented via passionate, never-before seen first-person accounts from the people who lived it.
Shooting stars such as Tim Richmond (the flashy driver who contracted HIV and died in 1989) and Jeff Gordon (who once hosted Saturday Night Live), and their ability to change the image of NASCAR, are also tracked. New interviews with the likes of Richard Petty, Darrell Waltrip, and Dale Earnhardt, Jr., fill in the background on the various personalities, feuds, and triumphs that have colored NASCAR's grease-spattered run. It will come as no surprise that the coolest stuff in the NASCAR chronicle The Ride of Their Lives is vintage footage of the early days: stock-car geeks racing around on the sand in Daytona Beach, and the 1959 building of the fabled racetrack in that NASCAR capital. There's more to cover in this standard-issue, TV-style history, of course, and the film does an energetic job of tracking the many dynasties that have enlivened the sport: the Pettys, the Allisons, the Earnhardts. The narration by Kevin Costner provides a smooth ride for the racing footage, which lavishes attention on some of the most celebrated finishes (and not a few of the most spectacular crashes). The treatment of that era has some of the inventing-the-wheel quality of documentaries such as Dogtown and Z-Boys in its breathlessness about a new subculture and its terrific original footage. The film is intended as a celebration, and isn't a critical take on the sport in any way, but to its credit it does at least allude to the less salutary aspects of NASCAR, including the fans' enthusiasm for the Confederate flag and the rough treatment of pioneering African-American driver Wendell Scott. --Robert Horton
Features
Highest Quality Recording; Officially Licensed
Product Info
- Actor
- Kevin Costner, Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon, Darell Waltrip, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Aspect Ratio
- 2.35:1
- Audience Rating
- Binding
- DVD
- Brand
- Team Marketing
- Director
- Rory Karpf
- EAN
- 0097368941144
- EAN List
- EANListElement: 0097368941144
- Format
- Widescreen, Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC
- Label
- MTV
- Manufacturer
- MTV
- MPN
- TM1527
- Number Of Discs
- 1
- Package Quantity
- 1
- Part Number
- TM1527
- Product Group
- DVD
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_DVD
- Publisher
- MTV
- Region Code
- 1
- Release Date
- 2009-02-10
- Running Time
- 93
- Size
- One Size
- SKU
- ~-`01Ihw9yE!4115`4RsT5_2009_unk2
- Studio
- MTV
- Title
- NASCAR: The Ride of Their Lives
- UPC
- 097368941144
- UPC List
- UPCListElement: 097368941144
- ASIN
- B001LM64V0
- Sales Rank
- 20581
