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Summary: Great Movie!!
Review: This is one of my favorite movies. It has a nice love story that isn't to mushy, all the actors/actresses are wonderful and the story line keeps you interested. It's not just for horse lovers. The DVD is wide screen which I personally do not like, if you view on a computer DVD it is in a small box. I own DVD and VHS in this movie, I love it that much. I recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: My Favorite
Review: The Horse Whisperer is one of my favorite movies. I have my own horses and can really get into this movie. You know how the young girl feels. And her feelings towards Pilgram after the accident. It is a very sad story. I loved the book, but I loved the movie even more!
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Summary: A great movie
Review: I enjoyed this movie very much, and the length (almost 3 hrs) didn't phase me at all. The story is very engrossing and keeps you riveted to the screen. All the actors give outstanding performances. The movie is a tear-jerker. If you dislike many of today's movies with all the violence and sex splashed across the screen, this movie is a welcomed departure. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys wholesome cinema.
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Summary: The Horse Whisperer
Review: Excellent story, slow at first, but the actors were great specially Kristin Scott Thomas and Robert Redford. A movie that makes sense, a wholesome movie to watch, no unnecessary trash in it.
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Summary: Words cant describe the beauty of this movie
Review: I've watched this movie a number of times and all i can say that it is one of the best movies ever made. Robert Redford has certainly set a standard of making movies which is nearlly perfect and unparallel in recent times.
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Summary: Some of the most beautiful cinematography I've ever seen...
Review: This movie is one of the most beautiful films that I have ever seen. Both the cinematography and the story line leave nothing to be desired. There are so many levels. It's about longing for connection...with a parent, with a spouse, with an animal..It's a love story without succumbing, like so many other movies, to the temptation to be gratuitous. There is just a balance of elements in this movie that few films ever achieve. The score is also extremely well done, and enhances all the good things about the movie. While it is fairly lengthy, it is well worth the investment of time, and I highly recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: A little piece of heaven.
Review: It seems as though I have waited my whole life for a moive like The Horse Whisperer. I remember the first time I saw it and cried. Cried for the beauty and depth that Robert Redford portrayed so strongly. I could identify with its' message of healing and the longing to feel connected with the land and with family. It so greatly captures what has been lost in our modern society....a yearning that is in all of us to find "a soft place to fall". I praise Redford for giving me a reason to feel and ache for all that is good and peaceful in the world and for reminding us that such places do indeed still exsist.
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Summary: Pilgrim prances away with it!
Review: Considered solely on its merits as a film, this thing is borders on the pathetic. The one redeeming feature is the horse's performance and the cameraman who captured it for us. That horse really worked for his hay. Watching Pilgrim reminds us of Lee Marvin's comment on receiving an Academy Award for Cat Ballou: "this really belongs to a horse somewhere in Nevada". While this is supposed to be a story about people, Redford as director couldn't avoid the cliché of scenes of sweeping vistas, pleasing to watch but contributing nothing to an already thin plot. This isn't a film about frontier development, it's supposed to be about a horse shrink confronted by an Eastern "modern woman." Why couldn't Redford provide some urban shots for contrast? We must be fair to Robert Redford. Converting the worst novel of the past generation to film took courage and talent. Redford has these aplenty, but the source material inevitably undercut even his abilities. Evans' unique version of a Harlequin Romance was designed for the screen - simplistic, implausible and meritless. The only thing positive here is that Redford translated Evans' characters into film without a hitch. Easily done since the only one with any depth is [again] the horse. Redford simply plays himself in the role Tom Booker. His opening scenes are nearly all mute, but Redford can pull that off with his piercing gaze. He personifies the laconic solitary rancher with ease. Regrettably, Evans' story forces Booker to fall for Anne MacLean, a woman with no redeeming characteristics whatsoever. Neither book nor film provided a shred of motive for this bizarre romance, we are simply presented the situation in text and scene as if perfectly natural. Thomas, as MacLean, conveys the self-centred, amoral and predatory publishing executive almost flawlessly. She blithely enters the affair with no shred of conscience for her betrayed husband, Sam Neill. What is the motivation for this marital treason? Sam couldn't do his job from Montana? We never find out just what made MacLean attractive to Booker. As it turns out, that isn't important. We come at last to the one who's supposed to be the important character, Grace, the teen-age amputee. Evans was careful not to burden the horse with manic-depressive tendencies resulting from Grace MacLean's crippling. We're left to think that being smacked by a semi was cause enough. In the event, even her handicap loses its importance. Grace has a more crippling situation to deal with, a mother whose behaviour would make a spider blush. Evans, of course, fit the story into 20th Century social norms by having Grace ultimately accept her father's cuckolding. The film reprises this seditious scenario, leaving Sam Neill the modern hapless male. [One wonders when he's going to break the weak reed parts he's been saddled with.] Annie MacLean wants the western hunk, she snares him and that's justification enough. It also turns out to be the single point of both book and film. Not much substance, but Redford didn't have much to work with.
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Summary: Great story about Grace and Pilgrim, but too long
Review: I like all those sprawling shots of the Montana landscape. The score and cinematography are the best things about this movie. But there are several scenes that could have been left out and kept this movie under two hours long: when Annie invites the Bookers over for dinner, Annie's heart to heart with Mrs. Booker by the creek, and the barnhouse dance. Of course which scenes to be cut is a matter of personal taste and opinion. I think it should have been trimmed down.
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Summary: Overblown hocum
Review: This long, overblown drama is a dreary experience with the only redeeming quality being the beautiful scenery and cinematography. When a young girl and her horse are hit by a truck, her mother enlists a "horse whisperer" who can bring her daughter's horse back to health and he ends up healing the whole dysfunctional family. Why it takes almost 3 hours to tell this story is beyond me but by the end, about the only character I had any feeling for was the horse. Robert Redford is his usual cardboard self and Kirsten Scott Thomas is a distant unattached actress who brings little here. The excellent Diane Wiest is totally wasted and seems out of place in the whole mess. Be warned, this is a "Lifetime" movie in disguise!
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