The World's Fastest Indian

(2005)

★ 7.7 IMDb · 923 votes

Genres: Drama, Adventure, History

Year: 2005

Runtime: 127 мин

Country: New Zealand, Japan

Director: Roger Donaldson

Cast: Энтони Хопкинс, Уолтон Гоггинс, Дайан Ладд, Брюс Гринвуд, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell, Aaron Murphy, Tim Shadbolt, Annie Whittle, Greg Johnson

Plot

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

For twenty-five years in Invercargill, New Zealand, Burt Munro (1899-1978) has been working on increasing the speed of his motorcycle, a 1920 Indian. He dreams of taking it to the Bonneville Salt Flats to see how fast it will go. By the early 1960s, heart disease threatens his life, so he mortgages his house and takes a boat to Los Angeles, buys an old car, builds a makeshift trailer, gets the Indian through customs, and heads for Utah. Along the way, the people he meets are charmed by his open, direct friendliness. If he makes it to Bonneville, will the old guy be allowed on the flats with makeshift tires, no brakes, and no parachute? And will the Indian actually respond?