This was definite feel-good movie. Cute, predictable, formulaic but also extremely well done. It's family fare and Disney-ish, was it Disney? Anyways, a great family film, well constructed, with a lot of heart including several well known actors who all do a great job with the material.It's just an all round nice movie.
The horse scenes are well done, the final race exciting and I loved the scene with "Sonya" carrying Dakota's backpack through the field. Family feuds are mended and there are some amusing scenes with jockey Freddy Rodriguez. David Morse is (as always) very good as the bad guy.
I much as I enjoyed this everything about it was familiar. The cast is great though, including a young Dakota Fanning as the precocious daughter of Kurt Russell, a horse trainer whose gifts were being wasted on making other men's fortunes. When "Soñador" a young horse with a promising future breaks her leg, the owner (the nasty David Morse) considers her as good as dead, Kurt however believes she deserves another chance and adopts her, losing his job in the process.
Along with Freddy Rodriguez, Luis Guzman and Kris Kristofferson they bring her back to peak performance, reconnecting lost family bonds along the way and then entering into a seemingly impossible goal; to win the Breeders' Cup Classic. 5/31/15
The horse scenes are well done, the final race exciting and I loved the scene with "Sonya" carrying Dakota's backpack through the field. Family feuds are mended and there are some amusing scenes with jockey Freddy Rodriguez. David Morse is (as always) very good as the bad guy.
I much as I enjoyed this everything about it was familiar. The cast is great though, including a young Dakota Fanning as the precocious daughter of Kurt Russell, a horse trainer whose gifts were being wasted on making other men's fortunes. When "Soñador" a young horse with a promising future breaks her leg, the owner (the nasty David Morse) considers her as good as dead, Kurt however believes she deserves another chance and adopts her, losing his job in the process.
Along with Freddy Rodriguez, Luis Guzman and Kris Kristofferson they bring her back to peak performance, reconnecting lost family bonds along the way and then entering into a seemingly impossible goal; to win the Breeders' Cup Classic. 5/31/15