8 Seconds

8 Seconds is a 1994 American biographical drama film directed by John G. Avildsen. Its title refers to the length of time a bull rider is required to stay on for a ride to be scored. It stars Luke Perry as American rodeo legend Lane Frost and focuses on his life and career as a bull riding champion. It also features Stephen Baldwin as Tuff Hedeman, and Red Mitchell as Cody Lambert. Notably, there is an early appearance by Rene Zellweger.

While growing up in Oklahoma, young Lane Frost Cameron Finley learns the tricks of the bull riding trade at the hand of his father, Clyde James Rebhorn, an accomplished rodeo bronco rider himself. As he enters his teenage and early adult years, Lane Luke Perry travels the western rodeo circuit with his best friends Tuff Hedeman Stephen Baldwin and Cody Lambert Red Mitchell. He meets and falls in love with a young barrel racer, Kellie Kyle, and they eventually marry in 1984.As Lanes legend and fame increase, so does the amount of pressure he puts on himself, to be what everyone wants him to be, and he wants to show that he is as good as they say he is. His ascent to the world championship is marred by a cheating incident, questions about Kellies devotion, and a near broken neck. The film also follows him through the true life series between himself and Red Rock, a bull that no cowboy had ever been able to stay on forseconds. It cuts the series down to three rides. In 1989, he is the secondtolast rider at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. While riding on the bull known as Takin Care Of Business, he dismounts after hissecond ride but the bull turns back and hits him in the side with his horn, breaking some ribs and severing a main artery. As a result of excessive internal bleeding, he dies on the arena floor before he can be transported to the hospital. ........

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