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Icon Home Entertainment in association with Warner Home Video announces the DVD debut of The World's Fastest Indian, a heart-warming tale with universal appeal. This "wonderfully uplifting and charming film" (Empire) will be released to buy and rent on DVD from 3rd July 2006 and will include a making of documentary and trailer.

Anthony Hopkins stars as Burt Munro, a man who never let the dreams of youth fade. After a lifetime of perfecting his classic 1920's Indian Scout motorcycle, at the age of 68 Burt set off from the bottom of the world (New Zealand) to test his bike at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah with only a shoestring budget. With all the odds against him, he set a new land speed record and captured the spirit of his times. Burt Munro's 1967 world record remains unbroken and his legend lives on today.

Inspirational

Featuring Academy Award Winner Anthony Hopkins "best performance since Silence of the Lambs" (News of the World) and arguably his "most engaging performance ever" (Sunday Express) The World's Fastest Indian was written and directed by Roger Donaldson (Cocktail, Dante's Peak) and captures Burt Munro with all his power, his determination, his creativity, his charm and his eccentricity.

Told through the eyes of a director who knew the man personally, Donaldson never wavered from his own dream of making Munro's story as he believed this could be an uplifting and inspirational film in the spirit of such films as Rocky, Billy Elliot and Chariots of Fire.