The screen account of jockey Bob Champions winning battle with cancer and his comeback to racing glory on Aldaniti in the Grand National a story so heartclutchingly corny no one would ever have bought it if it wasnt true is written and treated as a formulaic cross between a Disease of the Week TV movie and Rocky on a saddle.
But John Hurt, the greatest sufferer in British Equity, does a fine and suitably moving job as a not-entirely-likeable character who simply refuses to accept death or defeat.
And that bloody Grand National hymn will have you all sobbing.