Sweepstakes Winner

I'm not a big fan of horse racing movies. They're just too predictable. Guess who wins? Haha. Besides, I've been bitten by horses and kicked by horses and let me tell you horses can really bite hard and they can really kick hard, too. Luckily, the horse racing is kept to a minimum in this movie. That's just fine with me, but if you want to watch this movie mainly to see a bunch of horse racing you're going to be disappointed.

What this movie does have, thank goodness, is lots of comedy and an absolutely adorable main actress, Marie Wilson. She is one of a kind. 100 percent pure adorability. She puts the "bumpkin" in country bumpkin in this movie. She wins some money in the sweepstakes and there's nothing funnier than a country bumpkin winning money. The comedy is easy to achieve from there. Don't we all love country bumpkins? Especially when they're pretty and adorable? I should say so. And of course with her money she wants to buy a horse. A race horse. Uh-oh, here we go. Country bumpkin. Pretty girl. Money. Race horse. Sounds like the recipe for a movie to me!

The actor who plays the jockey who rides the big horse in the big race is a look-a-like and sound-a-like for Jimmy Cagney. I don't know if that was on purpose or just an accident. Now that I think about it I think it was on purpose. At least I hope it was because it works beautifully. It kept making me laugh.

Not much more to say I guess without spoiling the movie. It's fun. It's funny. And it's adorable. 8 stars.