Katy (Allison Lohman) loves her horses and the large ranch her family owns in Wyoming. Just on the verge of graduation from high school, Katy is sent home from the private academy she attends, for not submitting a final essay. Her father decrees that she will work hard on the ranch and finish her schoolwork in the coming summer. One day, Katy rides out in the morning and discovers a Mustang on their property. She is enchanted. Dad is outraged, for he has no use for a wild horse stirring up trouble in his own herd of stallions and mares. But, as luck would have it, the Mustang ends up fenced in their yard and Katy, calling the horse Flicka, secretly trains her at night. That is, until the day her father sells Flicka to a rodeo. How do you spell heartbreak? This is, first, a beautiful film to watch. The setting in Wyoming is wild and lovely, just like Katy herself. Lohman does a nice turn as the young girl who loves horses with her whole being. Tim McGraw and Maria Bello also give fine performances as her parents. The story has plenty of warmth and heartwrench, making tissues necessary in abundance. If you know any horse loving young girls, it would be criminal not to bring this movie to them. They will be in seventh heaven at any viewing. But, truly, anyone who loves animals and breath taking scenery, will adore Flicka.
