Movie Description 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.
| Credits | | Producer: | Patrick Markey | | Cast: | Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, Scarlett Johansson |
Notes Theatrical release: May 15, 1998.
The exterior of the Museum of the City of New York appears in the film as Grace's school.
Magazine editor Annie MacLean's office was that of Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter.
The Double Divide ranch in Montana us actually a working cattle ranch belonging to the Engle family, who continued to live and work there throughout filming.
"I help horses with people problems."--Tom Booker
Editorial Reviews "...Extremely well acted..." Sight and Sound - p.42-3 - Peter Matthews (09/01/1998)
"...The movie works as a thoroughly harmonious mix of performance, photography, scoring and emotional authenticity..." USA Today - p.9E - Mike Clark (05/15/1998)
"...Mr. Redford has found his own visually eloquent way to turn the potboiler into a panorama, with a deep-seated love of the Montana landscape against which his rapturously beautiful film unfolds..." New York Times - p.E10 - Janet Maslin (05/15/1998)
"...Robert Redford has shown that he has a real feeling for the West...and there is a magnificence in his treatment here..." Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (05/15/1998)
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