Playing: Teresa Earnhardt
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Writer: Robert Eisele
Release Date: 11 December 2004 (USA)
Genre: Biography / Drama / Sport
Rating: N/A
Tagline: One man, One sport. One nation.
Cast: Barry Pepper, Ernest Whitted, Andrea Powell, Russell Cook, Teresa Delgado and Traci Dinwiddie.


Plot Outline: Barry Pepper stars as stock-car racing legend Dale Earnhardt in this made-for-cable drama. Dale was raised by Ralph Earnhardt (J.K. Simmons), a proud man who worked at a mill to feed and clothe his family but found true satisfaction rebuilding jalopies in his garage and racing them at local events on the weekends. Ralph was a minor legend in Southern stock-car racing, and when Dale dropped out of high school to follow his own passion for racing, he started out in his fathers shadow -- and with no illusions about the odds stacked against him. But after more than a decade of struggle, Dale finally began to break into the big leagues in the late 70s, and in time he became the biggest money maker in NASCAR history, tying with the great Richard Petty as the winner of the Winston Cup trophies. But the lessons Dale learned from his father took on a deeper meaning when his own teenage son, Dale Jr. (Chad McCumbee), also decided to take up racing at the age of 16 -- and Dale tried to keep his hot-headed son away from the track.


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