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Racehoss: The Life of Albert Race Sample (2007)

The incredible and moving life story of Albert Race Sample, Racehoss is an award-winning film documentary directed by Sean Hepburn Ferrer. This powerful, one-man show takes viewers on an unforgettable journey of resiliency, revelation and redemption.

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Racehoss: The Life of Albert Race Sample

Title	Racehoss: The Life of Albert Race Sample (2007)
Runtime	1 hr. 58 min.
Studio	Janson Media
Genres	News and Information
Description	The incredible and moving life story of Albert Race Sample, Racehoss is an award-winning film documentary directed by Sean Hepburn Ferrer. This powerful, one-man show takes viewers on an unforgettable journey of resiliency, revelation and redemption. Born in 1930 in Texas, Sample was the mixed-race son of Emma (a hard-drinking black prostitute and gambler) and Mr. Albert (a wealthy white cotton broker and one of her tricks). He emerged from an abusive childhood an angry young man on a straight path to the penitentiary. By his early 20s, Sample was serving a 30-year prison sentence at Retrieve, a plantation-style prison known as the burnin hell. After a profound spiritual awakening, Samples future changed dramatically. In 1972, he was released after serving 17 years and soon received a full pardon and restoration of all civil rights. Sample went on to become the first ex-convict in Texas to work out of the Governors office and to serve on the staff of the State Bar of Texas. In recognition for his work in the field of corrections and rehabilitation of ex-offenders, Racehoss received numerous high-profile humanitarian awards. This true American treasure passed away on May 19, 2005.

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“Racehoss folds together three American traditions… literary storytelling, the belief in personal transformation, and the faith in the individual to buck all odds – - but docu is more than anything else ex-con Albert Race Sample standing on a stage before an audience recounting his remarkable life story. Elegantly recorded by director Sean Hepburn Ferrer, pic preserves Sample’s vivid presence on stage. A good fit for select fest slots, the troubled and colorful yarn should draw the biggest crowd on the more intelligent side of the tube spectrum.” -Variety.com

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This huckster spins yarns and expects audiences to swallow them hook line and sinker. Seems he's found his self selecting group of suckers.

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This movie has so much heart and is brilliantly done. What an incredible man who lived a life of such pain, but who made it through to be an inspiration to others and to give back to all of us with his work and then with such a tremendous performance. The intensity is difficult to watch at times but it is also riveting. Such pain but also triumph. Great sorrow but also liberating joy. It would be educational for everyone to see to get a glimpse of how we need to reach out with love to change our world, not with brutality and cruelty. This movie will touch you deeply and give you hope for a better world knowing people like Albert Race Sample have been in it. I so wish I could have met him but we are all better because he was here.

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I read the book when I was in high school. Now twenty something years later I see this. The stories brought to life. They say the book is always better than the movie, well nothing has brought me to tears like this in quite awhile. I laughed at the funny parts just as hard as I cried. May his soul rest in peace. This nation still has so much to learn. I am passing this on...

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never in my life I have watched a moving heart breaking movie like this except for rabbit proof fence which I consider it just as equal. This is a moving story that had me break into tears so many times that I stopped counting. Should be taught in universities and researched which I assume will happen soon. And I keep thinking to myself, how do we have such a judge, and a system? How could this happen to start with instead of taking then this child into care. Mixed deep feelings.. profound human triumph against all odds.