Love The Beast
Released: 2009
Runtime: 92min
Genre: Documentary / Sport
Director: Eric Bana
Starring: Eric Bana, Jeremy Clarkson, Steve
Coad
Storyline...
What if you were a Hollywood movie star with an
obsession for cars and racing?
You would probably read every script with even
the tiniest link to the subject matter, in the hope that you could tell a great
car story of the likes of "Grand Prix", "Le Mans" or
"Mad Max". Then one day you happened to open your garage door and
sitting there, right in front of you, was the film you had been searching for.
This is what happened to Eric Bana and this time around, the co-star is his
very own Ford GT Falcon Coupe- THE BEAST.
Eric realized the story was in fact, about him,
his first car, a lifetime of ownership and a lifetime of friendship. He set
about documenting his own 25 year long love story.
A simple tale of one man's ongoing relationship
with his very first car.
After years of precious restoration, Eric and
his 3 closest friends, decided to enter the car into one of the most grueling
and dangerous motor races that exists: The Targa Tasmania Rally. This would be
a personal Everest for both man and machine, until...on day 4 of the race,
tragedy strikes. The man who was hell bent on trying to convey how much he and
those around him loved "THE BEAST", had just destroyed it. Eric has
now unwillingly cast himself in his own real life drama. We follow him from
inside the race car to the surreal world of the red carpet. This compelling
true story follows Eric's progression as a car lover, and as a person
conflicted by what he has done. The personal and social pressures mount up in
the face of re building a car that means so much to him....
1969 Ford Mustang
1969 Ford Mustang
1939 Buick Special
1953 Hudson Hornet & 1955 Buick Roadmaster
1965 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 350
1974 Ford Falcon
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