8 Seconds
Cast
Actor Role
Luke Perry Lane Frost
Stephen
Baldwin Tuff Hedeman
Red Mitchell Cody Lambert
Cynthia Geary Kellie Frost
James Rebhorn Clyde Frost
Carrie Snodgress Elsie Frost
8 Seconds (1994) is a biopic film about American rodeo legend and world bull riding champion Lane Frost. The film details his life from his youth learning how to ride bulls, until his death in 1989. 8 Seconds was directed by John G. Avildsen and stars Luke Perry as Lane Frost, Stephen Baldwin as real life rodeo legend Tuff Hedeman, and Red Mitchell as cowboy poet Cody Lambert. The title refers to the length of time a bull rider is required to stay on for a ride to be scored.
Plot
The
plot follows young Lane learning the tricks of the bull riding trade at the hand
of his father, Clyde Frost, an accomplished rodeo bronc rider himself. The film
moves through the teenage and early adult years of Lane's life as he travels the
western rodeo circuit with his best friends Tuff Hedeman and Cody Lambert. Lane
meets and falls in love with a young barrel racer, Kellie Kyle (Cynthia Geary),
and eventually they marry in 1985.
As Lane's legend and fame increase, so does the pressure from his family and Kellie. Lane's ascent to the world championship is marred by a cheating incident, questions about his wife's devotion and a near broken neck. The film also follows Lane through the true life series between himself and Red Rock, a bull that no cowboy had ever been able to stay on for 8 seconds. The film cuts the series down to three rides, when in reality it was seven (Lane was able to get the best of Red Rock, going 4-3 in the series).
The film comes to a culmination at the 1989 Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. Lane was the second to last rider that day, riding on the bull known as "Takin' Care Of Business". As Lane dismounts after his 8 second ride the bull turned back and hit him in the side with his horn, breaking some ribs and severing a main artery. Accounting to excessive internal bleeding, he died on the arena floor before he could be transported to hospital.
The final scene of the film shows Tuff Hedeman some years later at the National Finals Rodeo riding for the world championship. After the 8 second bell sounded, Hedeman continued to ride and stayed on an additional 8 seconds as a tribute to his fallen best friend.
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