Dream Alliance is an unlikely race horse bred by small-town Welsh bartender Jan Vokes. With no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream in... Read allDream Alliance is an unlikely race horse bred by small-town Welsh bartender Jan Vokes. With no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream in the hopes he can compete with the racing elites.Dream Alliance is an unlikely race horse bred by small-town Welsh bartender Jan Vokes. With no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream in the hopes he can compete with the racing elites.
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- 3 wins & 5 nominations
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- TriviaDream Alliance was born on March 23rd 2001. As seen in the film his mother died during his birth from exhaustion and his father, Bien Bien, died just a year later, aged 13. At the time of the film's general release, in May 2021, Dream Alliance was alive and well, having retired from racing in 2012.
- GoofsIn the movie the horse wore saddle cloth #3 in all his races, which would be a very rare occurrence for a racehorse. He actually wore #11 in the Welsh Grand National.
- Crazy creditsIn the final scene before the credits actually roll, the film cast, along with the real-life Jan Vokes, Brian Vokes, and Howard Davies, collectively sing an over-the-top version of Delilah, originally sung by Welsh singer Tom Jones.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Project: Episode dated 13 December 2023 (2023)
- SoundtracksDelilah
Written by Louisa Bobb, Timothy Laws
Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) LTD
Courtesy of Sunfly Music Group Limited
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Really nice, uplifting true story of a group and their racehorse in Wales.
In substance this movie isn't much different from any number of movies over the years depicting horse racing success against heavy odds. What makes this one unique is how the horse came about.
Set and filmed in Wales it is a true story from almost 20 years earlier. A middle age woman has a boring life, she works at the local supermarket, she also works at the local pub, and goes home to prepare meals for her lackluster husband. She really has nothing to get excited about, to look forward to the next day.
That changes when a new guy shows up at the pub and she learns he had been involved in horse racing but not with a very good outcome. Still she gets very interested, studies up on the subject, figures out all the costs, and devises a plan. She will form a syndicate with interested townspeople, she will buy an appropriate breeding mare, she will hire a proven stud to produce a racing horse.
Let's pause for a minute, genetics being what they are, any offspring are like rolling dice, as Forrest Gump might have said "You never know what you will get." So the chances that any random horse being a champion racer is a big gamble, it could be great, it could be mediocre, or it could be a tragic failure. Even with the best of trainers.
There would be no worthwhile story here if the new horse had turned out to be a dud. But there is a story and this movie presents it entertainingly and authentically. Going to the internet and researching the actual story is worthwhile.
My wife and I watched it at home on DVD from our local library. We enjoyed it and found turning on the English subtitles necessary to understand the strong Welsh dialog.
Set and filmed in Wales it is a true story from almost 20 years earlier. A middle age woman has a boring life, she works at the local supermarket, she also works at the local pub, and goes home to prepare meals for her lackluster husband. She really has nothing to get excited about, to look forward to the next day.
That changes when a new guy shows up at the pub and she learns he had been involved in horse racing but not with a very good outcome. Still she gets very interested, studies up on the subject, figures out all the costs, and devises a plan. She will form a syndicate with interested townspeople, she will buy an appropriate breeding mare, she will hire a proven stud to produce a racing horse.
Let's pause for a minute, genetics being what they are, any offspring are like rolling dice, as Forrest Gump might have said "You never know what you will get." So the chances that any random horse being a champion racer is a big gamble, it could be great, it could be mediocre, or it could be a tragic failure. Even with the best of trainers.
There would be no worthwhile story here if the new horse had turned out to be a dud. But there is a story and this movie presents it entertainingly and authentically. Going to the internet and researching the actual story is worthwhile.
My wife and I watched it at home on DVD from our local library. We enjoyed it and found turning on the English subtitles necessary to understand the strong Welsh dialog.
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- Aug 14, 2021
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- Also known as
- Омріяний кінь
- Filming locations
- Blaenavon, Torfaen, Gwent, Wales, UK(street scenes)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,913,328
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $794,741
- May 23, 2021
- Gross worldwide
- $6,572,790
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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