Synopsis
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
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Cast
- Robert RedfordTom Booker
- Kristin Scott ThomasAnnie MacLean
- Sam NeillRobert MacLean
- Scarlett JohanssonGrace MacLean
- Dianne WiestDiane Booker
- Chris CooperFrank Booker
- Cherry JonesLiz Hammond
- Ty HillmanJoe Booker
- Kate BosworthJudith
- Austin SchwarzTwin #1
Recommendations
- 90
The A.V. Club
With solid, stately acting, and landscapes that could convert atheists, The Horse Whisperer tugs heartstrings without seeming self-conscious. - 88
ReelViews
A film as rich in its visual presentation as it is in its emotional resonance. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
All the nuggets of spoken wisdom rattle around with a tad too much space and (at 2 1/2 hours plus) too much length. - 60
Los Angeles Times
Robert Redford, who for the first time stars in a movie he's also directed, has taken this soap opera material and treated it like something inscribed on yak vellum by the Dalai Lama. - 60
Chicago Reader
There are times when this leisurely movie seems so much in love with its own virtue and nobility that there's not much room left for the spectator. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
It says something about this movie that Redford is at his most compelling playing opposite a nag. - 50
San Francisco Examiner
The film finally seems to stagger under the weight of its own significance. - 50
Dallas Observer
It's nothing more than a very long movie about someone, literally and metaphorically, having to get back up on a horse.
