This film start with the introduction of the Melbourne Cup, and the video footage of the Payne family scene! As turnout, this film is about how Michelle Payne become the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup! Entire film full of intense horse racing, and horse bonding scene! Make the film quite watchable! The care and teaching of Paddy offer to Michelle, make the film quite touching to watch! Michelle never give up, even she suffer injury cause by the fall! Make the film quite inspiring to watch! At the end, Michelle defeat all the male jockey to win the Melbourne Cup! She bring the trophy with her for her father! Still have a video footage of the real Michelle Payne winning the Melbourne Cup! That's it! A surprisingly good biopic!

Ride Like a Girl is a biographical and somewhat sappy conventional family film.

Well I got my wish of Teresa Palmer on a beach, wasn't thinking horseback but wishes are always tricky like that. She's decent in the lead role. I'm not sure about the Melbourne Cup, but almost half the jockeys in the field today are female, at least in my neck of the woods. Payne's story's told, it shows her drive and how she acquired knowledge from her father and what she overcame, but I feel it's a missed opportunity racing-wise. She goes from losing everything to winning everything without trial and error or gradual improvement. There's no thought process or insight within the actual races. The protest scene's good.

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The first 15 min or so of "Ride Like a Girl" (2019) were not very promising. I thought it was very cheesy and will be by a number movie about a sports i really didn't care at all. Yet despite that, this movie started grow on me little by little. Then somewhere in a middle i caught myself rooting for a main character as well as felt her when things didn't went that good. That is because i think of a very good performance by Teresa Palmer - i like this acctress in most what she usually does. Also it never hurts to have Sam Neil in one of the roles to say the least.

Overall, "Ride Like a Girl" tells a good and inspirational story and does it very well. A very fine, sincere and enjoyable movie overall.