Billy Boyd, Brian Cox, Christopher Anderson
"The Flying Scotsman" is the true story of celebrated Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree, a former world champion, who broke the world one-hour record on a bike of his own design, made partly out of sectio...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 18, 2007
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March 27, 2008Underwhelming by the numbers biopic which sketches over the protagonists mental illness unconvincingly.
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January 22, 2008An engaging and unusual mix of a sports-flick and a psychological drama. There's an obvious predictability attached to it, for being by nature another feel-good, inspirational story about the triumph of an underdog in adversity. But the film also manages to be an equally compelli...( read more)
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September 27, 2007Directed by: Douglas MacKinnon.
Starring: Billy Boyd, Brian Cox, Johnny Lee Miller.
Originally it wasn't a movie I wanted to see and a lot of the friends on my list on Flixster have put this down as 'not interested'....I'm not surprised, with so many ...( read more) -
July 13, 2009Saw this on HBO this morning, never heard of this movie before, dunno why though since it's based upon true facts and has a very good solid story, with strong characters. Personally i felt like watching a movie like this, you get bored of all that fucking shooting eventually and ...( read more)
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February 11, 2009Not an all out sports movie but the story it tells is an incredible one. The plot is simple & lacks the melodramatics associated with other 'inspirational' sports movies. There will be some who will be disappointed by this aspect . But it's amazing when a man can make a cycle out...( read more)
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January 25, 2009This movie was so inspiring. Johnny Lee Miller really got into this character.
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September 13, 2008Inspirational story about a championship cyclist who battles a mental illness and racing officals
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September 9, 2008From Trainspotting to this...Jonny Lee Miller was just as enjoyable. Not a great film...but I have a thing for Scots so I enjoyed it.
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Critic Reviews
August 22, 2007
Kyle Smith, New York Post
May 4, 2007
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
If you ride for pleasure or for sport -- or just to get from one place to another -- Scotsman is worth seeing. full review
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