8 Seconds Movie Review-Great Movie

This is one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. It is based on a true story of a rodeo bull rider. The character is Lane Frost played by Luke Perry. Who happened to look a lot like the original Lane Frost. Lane was a 1987 PRCA Bull Riding World Champion.


He met his wife Kelly at a event. She was a barrel racer. The movie shows Lane making it to the top all the while trying to wing his father's love. His father was a champion at one time and could never really tell Lane how good he was. He was always telling him that if he had done this or that he could have made it to the next level.


Lane and Kelly had some problems and split for awhile. The whole time they were apart,he could never concentrate on the bull riding. He could never give it what he had. He was good. His 2 friends Tuff Hedeman played by Stephen Baldwin who also a 3 Time World Champion and Cody Lambert were with him every step of the way. 

Lane learned the tricks of the trade from his father who was a bronc rider champion himself. Lane actually rode a bull that no one had ever been able to ride. No one had ever stayed on that bull for 8 seconds.In 1989 he rode a bull called Taking Care of Business.He rode for the 8 seconds and after his dismount he had turned his back to the bull. The bull hit him in the side,severing a major artery and breaking some ribs


He dies from the internal bleeding on the arena floor. Later that year his friend Tuff rode in the National Finals Rodeo. He stayed on for the 8 seconds and stayed on an additional 8 seconds to honor his friend Lane Frost. 


It is a very sad movie. A good crying movie. If you like cowboys and bull riding you will like this movie. I have had it for years,ever since it first cam out in 1994. And every time I watch I cry. It is a very good movie though.