The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

In 1952, a young medical student and a biochemist from Argentina set off on a road trip across South America. As they straddled their beaten up motorcycle, the men talked in awed tones of the sights they were about to experience. The record of their trip may have disappeared into the ether if one of the riders departing on that fateful day hadn't been the future insurrectionary figurehead of the Cuban revolution, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (played here by Gael Garcia Bernal). The young Che's companion on the trip was his best friend, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna), with their simple goals being to enjoy themsel...
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ves, and meet some girls along the way. As the trip unfolds at the behest of their spluttering motorcycle, the boys discover more about themselves than they ever imagined possible. Ernesto clings tightly to his ideals throughout, and delights in the opportunity to put them into practice. His refusal to spend the $20 provided by his girlfriend, Chichina Ferreyra (Mia Maestro), constantly angers his travelling companion as the two succumb to pangs of hunger. Ernesto's charitable nature comes to the fore when he reveals that he gave the money to a pair of out-of-work illegal immigrants. The trip winds down as the friends offer their medical expertise to a leper colony in Peru, with the duo's youthful folly acquiescing to adulthood, and the dawning realization of where they should head in life.

Based on the books THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (by Guevara) and TRAVELLING WITH CHE GUEVARA (by Granado), director Walter Salles (CENTRAL STATION) pulls some highly accomplished performances from his two leads. The South American landscape is breathtakingly captured on camera, with Salles vividly reproducing a continent beleaguered by poverty and disease, but containing a population in possession of an unshakeable sense of optimism, as beautifully personified by Guevara and Granado.
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Join world class motorcycle craftsman Jesse James as he attempts to his innovative Sturgis Special in a mere six weeks in this release that traces the birth of a masterpiece from frame to final product. With only six weeks to go until the Sturgis Rally, James and the West Coast Choppers crew are under the gun to create a world class motorcycle for the rally while simultaneously crafting customized bikes for the likes of Bill Goldberg and Shaquille O'Neal. When the last coat of pain has gone on and it's time to take the big ride, viewers will follow Jesse on the 1,400 mile trek from Long Beach, California to Main ...
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Street, Sturgis, with many memorable pitstops along the way.
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Gebaseerd op de reisverhalen van Che Guevara, één van de leiders van de Cubaanse revolutie. In zijn memoires beschrijft Guevara de avonturen die hij samen met zijn beste vriend Alberto heeft gehad tijdens zijn tocht, begin 1952, door Zuid-Amerika met de motor.

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