剧情简介
2016英国剧情片《赛狗奇缘》由Betsan Morris Evans导演,卢克·纽伯里主演,影片讲述的是:
Autumn 1977 Derek Springfield is an 18yearold misfit who 5 years earlier was plucked from his home in the industrial outskirts of Leeds to attend Public School on a scholarship He has just returned home at the end of his studies to await his Oxbridge results that hes hoping will result in his permanent escape Life at home is awkward for the brainy lad and embarrassing for his working class family who cant relate his feckless dad nononsense mum and two older brothers one a football hopeful and the other a distinctly dodgy acquirer of flash consumer goods
Derek kills time by walking a no hope greyhound Slapper and loving outofhis league Chrissie from afar But under Dereks loving care Slapper gets faster so fast shes stolen for her racing potential Derek despairs at being completely alone once more but Chrissie gets the local community to keep watch Slapper eventually escapes from her furious captors at an illegal flapper track Exhausted she somehow finds her way back and is reunited with Derek who tries to nurse her back to health his bedroom without his family finding out
Derek Chrissie and Slapper disguise themselves to avoid the dognappers and try their luck at racing her at a proper dog track The dognappers and all the Springfields converge on the stadium for the exciting climax
Its also the day Dereks results are due