25th Hour Monty Brogan (Ed Norton), an intelligent and handsome guy has, or had, an illegal occupation. He happened to get busted, so the movie chronicles his last 24 hours of freedom which he spends with his loyal dog, beautiful girlfriend, and his two trusted childhood friends, a stockbroker and school teacher. By the 25th hour, he will have to drive to prison. We see flashbacks of how Monty met his girlfriend, how he was busted, and his recent belief that his girlfriend may have turned him in. The acting was incredibly realistic. Ed Norton's one of the best, but there at least two problems with this film that kept El Hombre from calling it a "must have for your dvd collection." First, a big annoyance to El Hombre: sighing. In the first 45 minutes, there was a sigh here, and a sigh there, and soon you have some serious sighing. Now, the two problems. Monty's has a beautiful Puerto Rican girlfriend. He's intelligent. But while having a last dinner with his father, he goes to the bathroom, and begins a non-verbal stream-of-consciousness rant which seemed to pin his problems on every unique ethnic group in New York City. Monty's not some knuckle-head racist and El Hombre thought "what movie is this from?" An unwarranted large focus on September 11's aftermath was the second problem. Monty's stockbroker friend happened to have an apartment next to the World Trade Center foundation wreckage. Why so much focus? Racism and September 11th were themes not relevant to this movie. El Hombre says it's a worthwhile watch. One time. Don't buy the video or the dvd. Eliminate the two big problems, and it would be dynamite. Spike Lee collaborating with the actors. Seabiscuit Seabiscuit was an unfriendly, small racehorse with skinny legs and crooked forelegs, and he happened to be owned by an automobile barron who believed "the day of the horse is dead." Along comes a blind-in-one-eye jockey named Red Pollard (Tobey Maguire) who charms the hornery Seabiscuit with a sugar cube. Two losers who want to be winners. El Hombre loved it when Seabiscuit and Pollard were lined up for a race, and one of the other jockeys taunts Pollard saying "he looks pretty small for a racehorse." And Pollard replies, "he's going to look even smaller in a minute," meaning Seabiscuit was going to be way out ahead of everyone else. Did Seabiscuit and Red Pollard know a book and movie would be written about them? No, they were just trying to do their best with what life handed them. And it's a story worth telling and watching. Watch the film, then buy the dvd when it's released in six months. El Hombre wants the book. Does Amazon deliver to prisons in Belize?