Seve the Movie

Synopsis: Seve combines dramatic recreations with electrifying archive footage to tell his incredible rags to riches story; from humble beginnings on the beaches of Spain, where aged six he taught himself the game with a broken 3 iron strapped to a stick, to becoming world number one and the greatest golfer of a generation. Directed by John-Paul Davidson (Stephen Fry in America, Brazil with Michael Palin) and edited by Saska Simpson (The Three Kings, Paranormal Witness) with original score by Academy Award winner Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love), Seve is produced by Stephen Evans (Much Ado About Nothing, BAFTA nominated The Madness of King George and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) with the full support of the Seve Ballesteros Foundation.
Genre: Drama, Sport
Director(s): John-Paul Davidson
Production: Level 33 Entertainment
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
Year:
2014
124 min
Website
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1

This was the Open

when everything seemed to happen.

On the second day,

the boy Ballesteros was now six under par.

And led outright by two strokes.

But, inevitably, the power of world golf

had begun to close in.

Gary Player.

Johnny Miller.

Jack Nicklaus.

Severiano Ballesteros,

only nineteen.

Everyone enjoying him

and waiting for him to vanish

from the leaderboard.

I remember watching this 'boy'.

I watched the way that he did things

and it was a little bit unique.

Here was this young guy

ashing a ball,

playing great recoveries

and holing the putts

"This is a very special young man."

We all thought, who the devil

is this young matador of the links?

Straight in the middle.

And of course his story was

quite extraordinary.

My love was always playing golf.

Apart from golf, nothing existed for me.

Nothing.

Father:

Brother:

There's the church, right here.

It's pretty old.

And the school is on the right.

Right here.

There's my school.

The golf course is right here.

Here is the sixth hole, down there.

There's bad roads here, eh.

That's where I lived.

The house is about 100 years old

and it was a quite solid house I think.

My father, he was a farmer.

My father really worked very hard

but my mother worked even harder.

She spent all her life for the family.

Seve:

Brother:

Brother:

Mother:

There's many ways to play golf.

You can build your own golf course

by using your imagination - wife all.

Well, because I was not allowed

lo play or practice on the golf course,

I used to play on the beach.

I used to practice seven,

eight hours per day.

No!

Mother:

Severiano Ballesteros,

only nineteen coming here this morning,

leading a field of world-class golfers.

Never before, in the history

of this great championship,

had a Spaniard

been leading the whole field.

Yes! It's right in the middle of the hole.

He's realty tweaking their noses.

What great stuff from this youngster.

Can Ballesteros possibly make it?

He's newborn into world-class golf

and some say this very innocence

makes him oblivious to pressure.

First, a' was hitting the bah'

ah' over the place

and started making double bogies

and triple bogies

Oh, oh, oh.

Wife. That's in trouble.

Ballesteros battling to get back

into second place

but he's got a long, long putt here

for an Eagle three.

Right in for an Eagle.

Quite astonishing,

this young Spanish player.

Miller actually congratulates him

on that monster putt.

No, he wants to get it in

two more from here

to tie with Nicklaus for second place.

I said he was about the only one that I

saw coming along that really impressed me.

He was tremendous around the green.

He had a lot of imagination.

Yes!

Absolutely marvellous!

Straight in the middle!

What a prospect for the future and what

an exciting end to this championship.

That great chip-and-run

between the bunkers on eighteen,

man, that's a great shot.

I was very impressed with that.

Senoras y senores, muchas gracias...

He may have made a heart

throb among the girls of Southport...

In my mind,

I always dreamed and I always visualized

myself as becoming a champion.

Ballesteros is just about

to enter Leven's tigerish finish.

It's good. It's got the tail wind.

Oh yes! And the young matador

ls absolutely delighted!

Against all the odds he takes

the outright lead yer again

and can't wait to get to the next hole.

Strong breeze, so it's rather bold...

He ipped that one up.

He's running, he's jumping, he's hurling.

He really is charged up. This is what it

means by having your adrenaline owing.

He had a great walk about him. His gait.

He just strolled like a champion.

Well he's over on the

right-hand side somewhere.

Looks like he's in the parking lot.

Yes, he's certainly in the car park.

He's right up against the cars here.

So where must I drop?

You take the nearest point giving you

complete relief, no nearer the hole.

- Well it must be over there, right?

- Wife correct.

Over the years I've been called

the car park champion.

Do you resent that?

Do you mind that?

Golf is not how, it's how many.

Two putts from here

to remain two ahead.

Oh! Whoa! Yeah!

And he only needs one!

Well, the golfing gods really are

with the smiling Spaniard today.

Hale Irwin, who was two shots ahead,

out of it now.

But perhaps we are just moments away

from Severiano Ballesteros

becoming the youngest

Open champion of this century.

He's played it out safely for

the front of the green.

Irwin going through the crowd

and surrendering.

Somewhere back in the mass, Ballesteros

still battling his way through.

And what a finish!

What a grandstand finish yet again

from the young Spanish wizard.

Ballesteros is the champion!

Who were the two men who

came up and threw their arms around you?

My brothers.

We are all the brothers here.

Please, he hasn't yet recorded.

He hasn't yet recorded.

Having all three of my brothers

there with me and supporting me

and seeing all of them

just running through the green

and giving me a big hug-

and I saw my brother crying.

They realized that I did

something very important.

Severiano Ballesteros...

It never crossed my mind

lo finish second.

Second... no one would remember.

I have to be the champion.

Mother:

Seve, Seve, Seve...

I missed school many, many days.

My father and my mother

think I go to school,

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Tom Hodgson

Thomas Hodgson (June 5, 1924 - February 27, 2006) is a Canadian sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s, and one of the acclaimed Canadian artists known as the Painters Eleven. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of eighth in the C-2 1000 m event at Helsinki in 1952. Prior to the Olympics, Hodgson served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. While there, Hodgson picked up painting as a hobby. During the 1950s, Hodgson was part of the Painters Eleven which would earn him a position at the Ontario College of Art. A native of Toronto, he died in Peterborough of Alzheimer's disease. Hodgson was the last surviving member of Painters Eleven. more…

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