Earnhardt Fans, This is a must see

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http://www.dalethemovie.com/

[w1ck3d0n3l0st]

is that movie goin to be on dvd

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I have no idea what is going to happen.

[DirtGirl27]

according to the site it'll be in theaters...greensboro for one on may 22-24 and 29-31 with showtime info coming soon...looks like it'll be good from what i've seen talked about on cmt (also asheville, charlotte, fayetteville, greenville, morehead city, raleigh, supply, wilmington and winston)

[w1ck3d0n3l0st]

does anyone know when it is goin to be in raliegh i could find no date for it

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i believe that is going to be a great movie from what i saw in the cmt thing. Dale was the man the best there was and ever will be!

RIP DALE

[SmokeFan204]

Who is playing the part of Earnhardt? I have not read anything or heard about the movie.

[w1ck3d0n3l0st]

DALE SR is playin the part of him they talked about it and they said noone could every play him so it is goin to be about his life with clips of him

[SmokeFan204]

Thanks for the info.

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Chevy offering Free Premiers of 'Dale' to race fans: Chevrolet and GM Goodwrench will support the premier of the highly anticipated documentary "DALE" as presenting sponsors and by hosting exclusive screenings in 40 markets across the U.S. mirroring the Nextel Cup schedule. Chevrolet and GM Goodwrench dealers will hold over 100 premiers of "DALE," a documentary showcasing the life of Dale Earnhardt. The first Chevrolet/GM Goodwrench showing will take place in Clearwater, Fla. on Jan. 28 with 23 additional Florida screenings to be held throughout Daytona, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, and West Palm Beach prior to the Daytona 500. Race fans can find a list of participating dealers, relive their favorite memories of Earnhardt, express their relationship with the #3 team, view exclusive interviews and fresh content on the film, as well as Earnhardt's racing career at www.Goodwrench.com (http://www.gmgoodwrench.com/Racing/NASCAR/DaleEarnhardt.jsp).(GM Racing PR (http://media.gm.com/servlet/GatewayServlet?target=http://image.emerald.gm.com/gmnews/viewpressreldetail.do?domain=40&docid=32533))(1-25-2007)

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Dale Earnhardt is one of the most intriguing personalities in American history, let alone American sports history.
Folks are captivated by his life and death whether or not they respect or understand what he did.
He was Elvis and John Wayne and Steve McQueen and Christa McAuliffe all melded into one bad SOB.
Hence, doing justice to his story is no simple task. Producing a movie on his life that gives a true indication of who he was, and why, is all but impossible. (See: "3"). But it now has been done.
"Dale," a collaboration between CMT Productions and NASCAR Images, is the American dream in documentary form. It is the life story of Dale Earnhardt, the rough-around-the-edges ninth-grade dropout from a Nowhere, N.C., mill town who fought all manner of hardships to become the greatest stock car driver of all time and, in turn, an international icon.
Told with forgotten footage -- much of it never before seen -- and through interviews of Earnhardt and of those who knew him best, "Dale" is a most revealing look at an oft-mysterious individual.
Non-race fans will be moved. Race fans will be moved to tears.
This movie -- which opens in February all over Florida, then, like a concert tour, basically rolls across the the country with the Nextel Cup Series -- is not fiction. Nor is it based on a true story. It is fact; start to finish, from the hearts and minds of those who lived it. The quotes are eye-popping.
"Racing was his mistress. Being able to buy soap and toothpaste was a luxury." -- Marshall Brooks, Earnhardt's good friend.
"He was a chunk of coal. We all figured he'd be a diamond someday, but it was going to take a lot of polishing." -- three-time Winston Cup champion Darrell Waltrip.
"If you're a badass and you can back it up, it will intimidate people. Dale could look at people, and just by looking at them, Dale could make them doubt themselves." -- Teresa Earnhardt.
"He was the first real live-action superhero my son had gotten to know. For that matter, he's the first one I'd ever gotten to know, too." -- NBC news anchor Brian Williams.
And that's just the one-liners. The interviews with, and stories told by, Richard Childress, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, Kerry Earnhardt, Teresa Earnhardt and Taylor Nicole Earnhardt, plus Dale's four siblings, former crew chief Doug Richert and former crew members Chocolate Myers, Will Lind and Danny Lawrence, and NASCAR on Fox personalities Waltrip and Steve Byrnes, among others, are simply priceless.
Emotional doesn't start. Insightful doesn't start.
Childress told of the time he and Earnhardt were riding horses up a mountain in New Mexico and Earnhardt's horse slipped on a rock. Down the mountain they tumbled, collecting Childress and his horse along the way. They could have been killed.
When they returned to camp that night, Childress told Earnhardt that if he'd died that day, he'd want Earnhardt to keep racing. Without flinching, Earnhardt nodded.
"Yep, same here," he said.
That conversation is why Childress is still racing.
"I'd made up my mind, I was going to quit racing," Childress said later in the movie, discussing the dark days after Earnhardt's death. "That's what I wanted to do. Then I went back to my conversation on the mountain that day. We knew that's not what Dale would've wanted."
The interviews in this film are so good, so insightful, it'd be best just to print the transcript. And the footage, gems from the annals of NASCAR Images, is stunning.
The movie opens on Earnhardt driving a mid-'80s Chevy Blazer, the familiar black and silver, across his property at sunup, a rare glimpse of him deep in personal thought. His love for that farm is apparent throughout the film. There are shots of him moving dirt and trees with a bulldozer, shots of him throwing hay and just sitting in a barn sipping Gatorade.
There is footage of Earnhardt as father, water-skiing with a preteen Dale Jr. and doting on Taylor Nicole as a toddler. And for the first time, viewers see how badly Dale Jr. yearned for attention his father couldn't give. You can see the want on Junior's face, how much he admired his father and yearned for acknowledgment. It's quite sad, really.
And the progression in confidence as Junior matures into a successful driver is readily obvious, too. He'd gotten his father's attention, earned his respect as man and competitor. That's cool to see.
The personal life footage could stand alone as a film. But integrate the reason Earnhardt was beloved in the first place -- the racing -- and this is a landmark production. The Daytona 500 provides a key platform throughout the film. For 19 years, it haunted him.
In 1986, he ran out of gas late. In '90, he led the field into the next-to-last corner of the race, only to suffer a flat right-rear tire, handing the race to unheralded Derrike Cope.
In '97, he went on his roof, prompting legendary announcer Ken Squier to say "And for the 19th time, Lady Luck deals a bad hand to Earnhardt." I love that voice. Goose bumps.
Then, 1998. Before the race, Earnhardt met with a young girl who required a wheelchair to move about. She gave him a penny, said it would bring him good luck in the Daytona 500, help him win the race that had so long eluded him. He hugged her, kissed her cheek. And sure enough, he won the Daytona 500. Again, hair-raising.
Three years later, he would die on the last lap of the Daytona 500 in NASCAR's highest-profile tragedy. Earnhardt was on the cover of Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated. Suddenly, NASCAR was seared in mainstream American consciousness.
Childress, Teresa Earnhardt and Steve Park all speak about the immediate aftermath in the film. It is gut-wrenching.
Despite having dropped out of school in the ninth grade -- a decision he considered his life's biggest regret -- Earnhardt was a very smart man. And he was a ruthless competitor. Waltrip says as much in the film while commenting about his legendary run-in with Earnhardt at Richmond in 1986. To this very day, that race still gets to DW. This film makes it obvious.
But equally obvious is the joy their 1998 partnership brought Waltrip. Park had broken his leg in a crash at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and Earnhardt summoned his ol' buddy to fill in. It meant their relationship had come full circle.
Waltrip gave Earnhardt his first Busch Series opportunity 20 years before, and now it was Earnhardt who had the car and Waltrip who needed the opportunity. It was Waltrip's chance to silence the doubters who said the sport had passed him by. He took full advantage.
Earnhardt was a man's man. The alpha in every setting. Wrangler executive Jack Watson explains that as the reasoning when the jeans company chose him as poster boy for its "One Tough Customer" program.
Didn't take long to validate it. Earnhardt broke his leg in a wreck at Pocono and was slated to have surgery the next day. Watson got the call informing him of the situation but was forbidden to pass the information further. If NASCAR had known about the injury, it would have disallowed Earnhardt's participation the next week. He raced.
And on and on and on. The stories don't stop. And most of them, we'll never see. Lead writer Ryan McGee told me it easily could have been four hours long.
The wildest one of all, though, came from Earnhardt himself. He is fishing on the shore of Lake Norman, discussing his inner drive, what it is that makes him so successful.
Fear.
Fear of failure. Fear of losing his ride. Fear of losing his legendary ability.
Are you kidding me? Priceless.
This movie is worthy of the man. He would be pleased. You will be, too -- race fan or not.
Marty Smith

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Nearly six years after his death, Dale Earnhardt's family is finally in total agreement about something: The biography ``Dale'' definitively captures the life of NASCAR's seven-time champion.
``I was amazed, blown away,'' Dale Earnhardt Jr. (http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/nextel/drivers/88/) said of the movie, which opened this week. ``Couldn't believe how good it turned out. It's to the point. It's perfect.''
Produced by NASCAR Images and CMT Films and narrated by Paul Newman, the documentary allows Earnhardt to tell his own story. Made with raw footage -- much of it long forgotten, some of it never before seen -- the film is spliced together around a reflective interview Earnhardt did one day while fishing on his North Carolina farm.
Using racing scenes, photos, present-day interviews and old family videos, the film chronicles Earnhardt's rise from an eighth-grade dropout living in a depressed mill town to a NASCAR hero.
He was killed on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500 at the age of 49.

`I was thinking 'What have I not seen? Am I just going to be sitting through a whole bunch of stuff I've already watched?'' Earnhardt Jr. said. ``But all the footage that they got, the entire movie, I'd never seen any of it before. If it felt behind the scenes for me, imagine how it's going to feel for the fans.''
The project was a collaboration with Earnhardt's widow, Teresa, and car owner Richard Childress, who have been extremely reluctant to authorize or endorse Earnhardt projects. Childress refused to watch the first Earnhardt movie -- ESPN's ``3,'' -- which Teresa described as ``someone's dramatic piece.''
But the two people closest to The Intimidator had no qualms about this project.
``Richard and I both knew that they respected Dale as much as we did, and we felt very confident in their motive in doing this,'' Teresa Earnhardt said. ``This is the first thing that I know of that's endorsed, and I really think people will love it when they see it.
``It just shows a lot of the raw Dale, and that Dale's personality was more than just the racing champion.''
``Dale'' will be released as NASCAR moves across the country this season, opening in theaters near each week's race. It will air on CMT later in the year and eventually be released on DVD.
The story traces Earnhardt's life from birth until death -- with a never-before-seen in-car camera shot from the second before he hits the wall in Daytona -- and doesn't sugarcoat the controversies or criticisms that shadowed his career and his personal life.
Video footage shows the strained relationship he had with a young Dale Jr., who desperately longed for his father's attention but often was squeezed out of the spotlight. But there are tender moments, too, including a scene where Earnhardt tries to teach his son to water ski and another where a young Junior pretends to interview his father in Victory Lane.
There's a part in which Earnhardt professes his adoration for Teresa, and, after often failing as a father to his first three children, scenes show him flourishing in the role with youngest daughter Taylor Nicole. ``Time is really short to spread between a family, home, racing, the dealership, the farm,'' he says in the movie. ``You just try to have something for the future for the wife and the kids if something happens to me.''
The film shows a sensitive side to the hard-nosed racer, and it's sure to surprise many fans. He regrets dropping out of school and, despite his success on the race track, professes a constant fear of it all falling apart one day.
It's why, despite 76 career wins and more than $41 million in earnings, he continued to labor on his farm each week and did most of the chores himself.
``I can win a race on Sunday and I can feed the cows on Monday or collect eggs in the chicken house, it doesn't matter to me,'' he says. ``Because we win doesn't change my attitude or way of life. I'm a jack of all trades and a master of none.''
That ethic is what endeared Earnhardt to so many fans, said NBC anchor Brian Williams.
``If you are out there working for a living with your hands, boy, this was your guy,'' Williams says in the movie. ``He represented blue collar hopes and dreams in this country. It meant a lot to him that because he was from that class and society, he would never betray that class and society.''
Childress admitted poring over the footage was painful and used a memory of Earnhardt to explain how he continued racing after his best friend's death.
Once while riding horses in New Mexico, the horses tumbled down a mountain, and both men could have been killed. When they returned to camp unscathed later that night, Childress told Earnhardt that if he'd died that day, he'd expect Earnhardt to keep racing.
``Yep, same here,'' was Earnhardt's response.