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  • 2019
  • PG
  • P12 Films
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2019
  • PG
  • P12 Films
  • 1 h 27 m

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....

Directed By: Brian Presley

Written By: Brian Presley

  • 2019
  • PG
  • P12 Films
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2019
  • PG
  • P12 Films
  • 1 h 27 m

The Great Alaskan Race

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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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....

Directed By: Brian Presley

Written By: Brian Presley

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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43% Mixed
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43% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
29
14% Positive
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43% Mixed
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43% Negative
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75
Oct 28, 2019
The Great Alaskan Race is the vigorous, heartbreaking film about that true story that will leave you cheering.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Bobby LePire FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
40
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.
By Teo Bugbee FULL REVIEW
30
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.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
30
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.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
20
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.
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Production Company Rebel Road Entertainment
Release Date Oct 25, 2019
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating PG
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Website https://p12films.com/thegreatalaskanrace/
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