In a family with 10 children, all raised around horse racing, isn't one almost mathematically guaranteed to grow up to be a champion?
A sense of inevitability hovers over Ride Like a Girl, despite the film hinging on an underdog theme: It's about one of the family's daughters, after all, and girls don't win the Melbourne Cup.
Making her debut as director with a true story from her native Australia, actor Rachel Griffiths gives the pic a workmanlike, generic feel that would play well on family-centric cable channels.
Horse lovers will be the moviegoers most vulnerable to its modest charms. Teresa Palmer's Michelle Payne is the youngest of 10 siblings being raised by the single-minded horse trainer Paddy Payne (Sam Neill, well suited to the.
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