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The Horse Whisperer
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November 10, 1998 "Please retry" | — | 1 |
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January 10, 2002 "Please retry" | — | 1 | $14.08 | $15.98 |
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November 10, 1998 "Please retry" | — | 1 | $24.96 | $18.88 |
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Format | PAL |
Contributor | Chris Cooper, Cherry Jones, Karen Tenkhoff, Patrick Markey, Nick Evans, Richard LaGravenese, Scarlett Johansson, Dustin Schwarz, Sam Neill, Robert Redford, Eric Roth, Jeanette Nolan, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ty Hillman, Austin Schwarz, Dianne Wiest, Lauren Lloyd, Kate Bosworth, Joseph P. Reidy See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 2 hours and 50 minutes |
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Robert Redford directs this compelling story of 14-year-old Grace MacLean (Scarlett Johansson), who is emotionally and physically scarred after suffering a terrible accident while riding her prized horse, Pilgrim. Desperate to help her daughter, Grace's mother, Annie (Kristin Scott Thomas), a high-powered magazine editor, launches an all-out campaign to find a horse whisperer, someone with a unique gift for curing troubled horses. She learns of Tom Booker (Redford), who works to rebuild all the lives shattered by the accident. Love blossoms between the horseman and the uprooted sophisticate, resulting in unexpected consequences. The film was based on the popular novel by Nicholas Evans.
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- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 5.31 x 0.59 x 7.48 inches; 0.64 Ounces
- Item model number : B00005B4ND
- Director : Robert Redford
- Media Format : PAL
- Run time : 2 hours and 50 minutes
- Actors : Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, Dianne Wiest, Scarlett Johansson
- Subtitles: : English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Portuguese, Hebrew
- Producers : Joseph P. Reidy, Karen Tenkhoff, Lauren Lloyd, Patrick Markey
- Language : German (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- ASIN : B00005B4ND
- Writers : Eric Roth, Nick Evans, Richard LaGravenese
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #35,386 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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Grace Mc Lean (a very young Scarlett Johansson) has a terrible accident while riding her horse Pilgrim. As a result, Grace's best friend dies, and both Grace and Pilgrim are left with terrible physical and emotional injuries to endure. The terrible circumstances in which the McLeans are caught up into, begin to uncover the many cracks and emotional holes existing in the relationship between Robert and Annie (Grace's parents) most of them masterfully hidden under years of routine and probably under a comfortable carelessness. After the accident, young Grace starts to slide down into an abyss of emotional bitterness and frustration which is endangering both her soul and spirit.
A confused Annie, will cling on to the hope that Pilgrim's recovery may also probably be a way to Grace's emotional healing, so she starts to research into the somewhat seclusive world of horses, finding out about Tom Booker (Robert Redford) a renowned "horse whisperer" with a special touch for troubled animals who lives out in the prairies of Montana. In a desperate move she sets out to the country to find Booker, along with a reluctant Grace and the sick horse in a trailer. During this trip to the unexpected, Annie will find herself confronting the harshness of her own frustrations and failures as a distant mother, perhaps more involved with her career than with her family, and also with the overwhelming sadness of a marriage and a love once new that, though still there, has now grown old and empty.
A shaken and vulnerable Annie and a lost and hurt Grace, will ultimately end up finding strength and purpose in Tom Booker's devotional dedication to Pilgrim's recovery. Somehow it seems that by -patiently yet strongly- taming Pilgrim and his scarred soul, Booker is taming his own spirit as well as Grace's and Annie's, so they all can come to accept those things they cannot change, while being brave enough to change those they can. The overwhelming presence of nature and the vast landscape will also make them discover the joy hidden in simple things as the blessings we all enjoy just merely for being alive. Eventually a love story unfolds between Annie and Tom but despite the strong feelings for each other, they realize that their coming together would eventually require them to sacrifice too much, so even loving each other, they ultimately choose to let each other go. In time, Pilgrim's progresses mean acceptance and fortitude and an unexpected maturity for the young Grace who slowly begins to overcome her tragedy with acceptance and courage. Ultimately she finds herself in peace with the burden that has been put over her young shoulders. When Annie, Grace and Pilgrim set back to NY they will physically seem to be returning back to their old lives, but is just obvious, that all of their lives have been changed forever. So they are not really returning, but beginning to travel a path to someplace totally new.
The scenery, the marvelous natural landscapes, the photography are just spectacular. Simply beyond words. The music provides a perfect background to the movie and the original soundtrack by Thomas Newman including moving pieces like "The vast continent", "Angus", "Your misfortune -none of my own", "Pilgrim's progress"... is out of this world, being one of my favorites ever and by far one of the most beautiful scores I have ever listened. A special mention has to be made of Robert Redford, whose job as a director was (from my humble point of view) totally overlooked and underestimated by the Oscars. Being the beautiful movie that this is, I will never understand how the Academy ignored it so dramatically in all Oscar categories.
Redford does not get the girl in the end … as always a bittersweet ending.
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