Bruce Greenwood plays Jerry in this independent film written and helmed with great affection by his Thirteen Days director, Roger Donaldson. The film stars Anthony Hopkins as Burt Munro, a New Zealander who designed the world's fastest 1920 Indian motorcycle and then took it to Utah where he set the land-speed world record at The Bonneville Salt Flats in the 1970s. Greenwood enacts a Bonneville based mechanic who views the project with amused reservations. His brief cameo role was filmed the first week of October 2004 in Utah.

Production (without Greenwood) moved to New Zealand in November where the original story took place. The movie chronicles Munro's unusual life in New Zealand and his first trip to the United States to race his beloved motorcycle. Donaldson knew Munro well and had previously filmed a documentary on his exploits, but this movie is a more personal look at Munro - a blatantly sentimental and heartfelt tribute that involves a vast cast of actors who play vignettes of people he met along the way.

The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2005 and opened exclusively in Los Angeles and New York on December 9, 2005, followed by a wider release on February 3, 2006. A trailer with most of Bruce's role in the film is available.