The Great Alaskan Race

Name: The Great Alaskan Race
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Released: October 25, 2019
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 29
Cast: Brad Leland, Brea Bee, Brian Presley, Bruce Davison, Eva Abshire

2019

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P12 Films | Release Date: October 25, 2019 | PG

Starring: Brad Leland, Brea Bee, Brian Presley, Bruce Davison, Eva Abshire, Henry Thomas, James Russo, Talliah Agdeppa, Treat Williams, Will Wallace

Summary: After overcoming personal tragedy, widowed father and champion musher Leonhard ‘Sepp’ Seppala steps in the midst of a diphtheria outbreak in his small dock town of Nome, Alaska to safely deliver the anti-toxin to the hospital. With his own child’s life on the line, Sepp battles the impossible, accompanied by his trusty pack of sled dogs.After overcoming personal tragedy, widowed father and champion musher Leonhard ‘Sepp’ Seppala steps in the midst of a diphtheria outbreak in his small dock town of Nome, Alaska to safely deliver the anti-toxin to the hospital. With his own child’s life on the line, Sepp battles the impossible, accompanied by his trusty pack of sled dogs. When a severe winter storm has made it impossible journey for planes, trains, or any form of transportation, Sepp and his dogs are able to get the anti-toxin to the children in need, just in the nick of time.… Expand

Director: Brian Presley

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Drama, History

Rating: PG

Runtime: 87 min

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Rex Reed

Oct 28, 2019

The Great Alaskan Race is the vigorous, heartbreaking film about that true story that will leave you cheering. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Oct 22, 2019

The Great Alaskan Race reaches for those tears, but may best be appreciated by being the most historically accurate — if fictionalized and not wholly complete — version of this story we’re likely to get. Read full review

Bobby LePire

Oct 24, 2019

Brian Presley wrote, directed, produced, and stars in The Great Alaskan Race, and his reverence for the dire situation and heroics of the mushers are evident throughout. However, passion alone does not make a good movie. Read full review

Teo Bugbee

Oct 24, 2019

In addition to his acting duties, Presley also wrote and directed the film. But while he provides beard and brawn as the heroic musher, he struggles with the technical challenges of editing and staging the run. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Oct 24, 2019

Although earnest to a fault and certainly fulfilling its goal of being family-friendly entertainment, The Great Alaskan Race ultimately proves less exciting and not nearly as adorable as Balto, the 1995 animated film inspired by the same events. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Oct 24, 2019

With its general tone of inspirational uplift that’s too often spelled out in dialogue rather than felt, The Great Alaskan Race bears the same relation to “faith-based entertainment” that it does to action-adventure cinema: It gestures in that direction, yet doesn’t actually make the commitment. Read full review

Oct 25, 2019

It’s the banal dialogue, lack of tension, one-note characterizations and overly earnest acting — even by such veterans as Treat Williams, Bruce Davison and Henry Thomas — that conspire to turn this potentially moving and exciting picture into mush. Read full review

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