The Rock gets jump start on Cena, NASCAR
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With WWE superstar John Cena the ritualistic starter for the Daytona 500 on Sunday, Feb. 26, his WrestleMania 28 foe Dwayne The Rock Johnson remains one step ahead of the hardest working man in WWE.
Johnson is the president producer of “Racing Dreams,” and the award winning documentary makes its citizen broadcast premiere on PBS’ POV series at 9 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 23. It will also move on POV’s website Feb. 24-March 24.
Fondly described as “Talladega Nights meets Catcher in the Rye,” Racing Dreams chronicles a year in the viability of three tweens who dream of becoming NASCAR drivers.
Annabeth Barnes, Josh Hobson and Brandon Warren nation extreme go-karts at speeds of up to 70 mph in the World Karting Linking’s Pavement Series, considered the “Little League” of experienced racing. The film is a humorous and heartbreaking portrait of racing, innocent love and family struggle.
“Racing Dreams” is directed by filmmaker Marshall Curry, whose anterior POV films have been nominated for Oscars (Street Fight, 2006; If a Tree Falls: A Yarn of the Earth Liberation Front, 2012).
Source: MiamiHerald.com