| | | Let the world change you... and you can change the world.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Deleted Scenes, Featurette, Interview, Cast and Filmmakers, French, English Subtitled
Based on a true life story, The Motorcycle Diaries is an inspiring and thrilling adventure that traces the youthful origins of a revolutionary spirit. The film follows two daring friends, Ernesto Che Guevara (Gael Garc a Bernal, Y Tu Mam Tambi n) and Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna), who hop on the back of a beat-up motorcycle for a breathtaking and exciting road trip across Latin America. From executive producer Robert Redford and acclaimed director Walter Salles (Central Station) comes a life-changing journey that critics are hailing as Magnificent! (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)BONUS MATERIALS:Deleted ScenesA Moment with Alberto GanadoMaking of The Motorcycle DiariesA Moment with Gael Garcia Bernal"Toma Uno" ("Take One") with Gael Garcia BernalMusic of the Road: An Interview with Composer Gustavo SantaolallaCast and FilmmakersSystem Requirements: Running Time 127 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE
"A superb film. " Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle
"...a very personal tale with a central theme we can all relate to..." James Berardinelli's ReelViews
"A gorgeous, poetic and stirring epic." Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Editor's Note
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 themselves, 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.
| Features | Audio: French, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Making Of The Motorcycle Diaries | | Subtitles: English | | Subtitles: English, French | | Cast and Filmmakers | | Widescreen Presentation | | A Moment with Gael Garcia Bernal | | "Toma Uno" ("Take One") with Gael Garcia Bernal | | Music of the Road: An Interview with Composer Gustavo Santaolalla | | Deleted Scenes | | A Moment with Alberto Ganado | | Making of The Motorcycle Diaries Featurette |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 1/27/2009 |
| Running Time: 127 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2004 | | Catalog ID: 62025942 | | UPC: 00025192594229 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: Spanish | | Available Audio Tracks: French Dubbed, Spanish | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (2005) | | | Jose Rivera, Nominee, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published | |
British Academy Awards (2005) | | | Gael Garcia Bernal, Nominee, Best Actor | |
Cannes Film Festival (2004) |  | Walter Salles, Winner, Francois Chalais Award | |
Independent Spirit (2005) | | | Walter Salles, Nominee, Best Director |
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| | Professional Reviews | Uncut
"[A] searching, intelligent and ultimately very moving film." 09/01/2004 p.126Premiere
"[A]n involving, lyrical, and visually beautiful..." 10/01/2004 p.28-30 Entertainment Weekly
"[A] gorgeously shot South American road movie..." 10/01/2004 p.51 Rolling Stone
"[M]esmerizing....A good part of the film's power is the way it sneaks up on you." 10/01/2004 p.107 New York Times
"What THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES captures, with startling clarity and delicacy, is the quickening of Ernesto's youthful idealism, and the gradual turning of his passionate, literary nature toward an as yet unspecified form of radical commitment." 09/24/2004 p.E1 Los Angeles Times
"This might be the quietest, most meditative motorcycle movie ever made." 09/24/2004 p.E1 Rolling Stone 8 of 10
A good part of the film's power is the way it sneaks up on you. The boys are sniffing out adventure, - Peter Travers
Portland Oregonian 9 of 10
The result is a rare and precious work. The Motorcycle Diaries is an epic road movie with eve - Shawn Levy
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