NEW YORK, April 2 (UPI) -- The new live-action, family adventure film "Speed Racer" has been selected to close the upcoming 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, organizers said.
Directed by the Wachowski brothers, the movie stars Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon and Matthew Fox. It is about a young race car driver's "quest for glory in his thunderous Mach 5," press notes for the film said.