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The Horse Whisperer
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
1998 · Directed by Robert Redford · 169 min · Adventure · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 8 frames
Plot
In Lake Luzerne, New York, teenagers Grace MacLean and her best friend Judith go out early one winter's morning to ride their horses, Pilgrim and Gulliver. As they ride up an icy slope, Gulliver slips and hits Pilgrim. Both horses fall, dragging the girls onto a road, where they are hit by a tractor-trailer. Judith and Gulliver are killed, while Grace and Pilgrim are severely injured.
Grace, left with a partially amputated right leg, is bitter and withdrawn after the accident. Meanwhile, Pilgrim is traumatized and uncontrollable to the extent that it is suggested he be put down. Grace's mother Annie, a strong-minded, workaholic magazine editor, refuses to allow it, sensing that Grace's recovery is linked with Pilgrim's.
Desperate for a way to heal Grace and Pilgrim, Annie tracks down a "horse whisperer", Tom Booker, in the remote Montana mountains. Tom agrees to help but only if Grace takes part in the process. Grace reluctantly agrees, and she and Annie go to stay at the Booker ranch where Tom lives with his brother and his brother's family.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Richard LaGravenese, Eric Roth
- Cinematography: Robert Richardson
- Edited by: Freeman A. Davies, Hank Corwin, Tom Rolf
- Music: Gwil Owen, Thomas Newman
- Production design: Jon Hutman
- Produced by: Robert Redford, Joseph P. Reidy, Patrick Markey, Karen Tenkhoff
Cast
- Robert Redford as Tom Booker
- Kristin Scott Thomas as Annie MacLean
- Sam Neill as Robert MacLean
- Scarlett Johansson as Grace MacLean
- Dianne Wiest as Diane Booker
- Chris Cooper as Frank Booker
- Cherry Jones as Liz Hammond
- Ty Hillman as Joe Booker
- Kate Bosworth as Judith
- Austin Schwarz as Twin #1
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Wildwood Enterprises, Touchstone Pictures
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Box office: $186,883,563
- Themes: new york city, love triangle, attachment to nature, parent child relationship, marriage crisis, horseback riding, montana, confidence, horse, riding accident
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