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The World's Fastest Indian

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The World's Fastest Indian is a 2005 film based on the Invercargill, New Zealand speed bike racer Burt Munro and his highly modified Indian Scout motorcycle. Munro set numerous land speed records for motorcycles with engines less than 1000 cc at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in the late 1950s and into the 1960s. Some suggest his records may never be broken.

The film stars Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins and was written and directed by Roger Donaldson. The film opened in December 2005 to positive reviewsThe World's Fastest Indian at RottenTomatoes.com and quickly became the highest grossing local film at the New Zealand box-office taking in $7,043,000;New Zealand box office Top 10 and taking in over $11 million overseas.The World's Fastest Indian (2005)

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Burt is loved in his community for his friendly and charming personality and for being featured in Popular Mechanics magazine (May 1957 p6) for having the fastest motorcycle in Australia and New Zealand. However, that recognition is contrasted by his exasperated neighbours, who are fed up with his un-neighbourly habits such as urinating on his lemon tree every morning, neglecting his yardwork, and, most of all, waking up before sunrise to rev his bike.
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