Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.
TxMike This is not a great or complex movie but treats a family subject very well. It is refreshing for not having sex or bad language in it.Julie Benz is Annie Garrett. In a tragic turn of events when she was a teenager, her sister was killed in an accident and Annie's mother never was the same. Annie internalized this as her mother blaming her for the death, since the sister was running an errand that Annie had forgotten, so as an adult Annie had a very strained relationship with her mother.As a married woman with a young daughter, her life is further complicated by a husband who is very unreliable, and doesn't seem to really love Annie or their daughter, and regularly disappears.As the story starts, the family of three travel from Colorado to California for him to start a new job at a horse ranch, but when they arrive the job is gone. Quickly he is too. So Annie and daughter, broke, have to scrape for an existence.Their salvation is Marsha Mason as Mary Lou O'Brian, who runs a horse training farm, and agrees to hire Annie and let them stay in the guest house temporarily for $10 a night.The story develops from there as Annie blossoms on her own. Nice story. Gage Golightly, who at that age looked so much like a young Drew Barrymore, is the young daughter Taylor Garrett. John Livingston is the dastardly and unreliable husband Ross Garrett.SPOILERS: Annie also had her own horse, which came with an $8000 mortgage, and in the process he also became blind. Annie had been training for a show dressage competition, with $20,000 to the winner, using Mary Lou's red show horse, but the dastardly husband showed up and injured the horse, so she had to do the improbable, win the show on a blind horse. Which she did. She divorced her dastardly and unreliable husband and was developing a relationship with the nice local vet. Plus Annie and her mother began to heal their old wounds.
horsecoach4hire Sorry folks, but if you are looking for a good horse movie, this is NOT one to watch. While I can appreciate the back story, this movie was a mess. Poor acting, editing and research fails this movie.As an equestrian, there is nothing more frustrating to watch inaccuracies in film. While I would not get too technical, there are blatant, obvious , most BASIC errors made in this film that makes this movie laughable. I've worked with a semi-blind horse, and I know many older horses that went blind, and the fact still remains, each horse handles this differently. The fact that the 'vet' said this horse would not be able to eat or drink is completely incorrect, and really is a poor testament to the research of the team. If this horse had a condition, it should have been mentioned in the film. Horses just don't up and go blind all of a sudden. Also, horses don't lead themselves to a trailer and I know for a fact that blind horses do not load trailers easily.Also, in regards to other horse aspects of this film. Trainers who work dressage horses do not give up if a horse won't move forwards, riders actually RUN their stirrup irons up before leading a horse around, as it can bruise a horse's shoulders along with ruining those saddles, which can run close to five grand for the top kind. Added to the fact that horses and rider who preform freestyles(kurs) actually ride to music, and that they are warming up a lot sooner than just 'appearing' for their class. They also have time to trot around the ring and cue the music before entering. The horse that was being used was at best, PSG level. He was older, and that was apparent in his movement. While this isn't as much of a problem, by the time you get past all the other inaccuracies, what is left is a movie that really has nothing to stand on.For people in Hollywood--PLEASE. take the time to research horses for films. There are many, many things I see that are so basic in knowledge, yet films still forget to show these facts. It is frustrating to have young riders come to me for lessons, and except them to run like a Disney movie. True horsemanship requires a lot of work, very few ribbons, and the occasional blood. Lots of sweat, lots of tears, and in the end, it all about the relationship of horse and rider.Better equestrian movies or movies that families might enjoy are: Internatiol Velvet, Sylvester, Man From Snowy River, Black Stallion, the Horse Whisperer. Sure, these movies also have their quirks/errors, but by and large, had better research and workings with their horses in the films.
FlottaGuidato Horse loves everywhere will love this pleasant film about a woman who's deadbeat husband abandons her, leaving her to find a job and a home for herself, her daughter and her horse. She finds all of the above at a stable; where relationships blossom and the future beings to look bright.This movie has good acting, average filming, a good plot and the flashbacks to when the lady was younger/the dynamics with her mother add to the storyline. This story was also loosely based on a true story. 7 out of 10.
jlnic I am a Julie Benz fan from her days on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the vampress Darla. I nice to see her in a good old Hallmark film.**Spoilers ahead**The film itself is what your expect from a Hallmark Drama. The shiftless husband abandons his wife and daughter with no money and a bank lien on their horse. She finds work on a horse ranch with the owner who lost her own daughter. Her horse goes blind and she finds a love interest in the local veterinarian. In order to save her horse from the bank she enters a horse dancing competition. This being a Hallmark film I am guessing you know how is will end. The fact is the Julie Benz, along with her young co-star, make this movie believable and enjoyable Hallmark movie.
