43 Metascore. An abandoned zebra grows up believing he is a racehorse, and, with the help of his barnyard friends and a teenage girl, sets out to achieve his dream of racing with thoroughbreds. Director: Frederik Du Chau | Stars: Frankie Muniz, David Spade, Snoop Dogg, Bruce Greenwood. Votes: 16,971 | Gross: $49.77M.
54 Metascore. In Canton, Mississippi, a fearless young lawyer and his assistant defend a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, inciting violent retribution and revenge from the Ku Klux Klan. Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey.
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StardustIn the years of Western movies, Scott rode a palomino horse named Stardust. He was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1975. Following the production of "Ride the High Country" in 1962, co-starring Joel McCrea, Scott retired from films.Jul 23, 2007
Roy Rogers and Trigger -- Tennessee Walking Horse. He bought Trigger and kept him his whole life <3. Roy Rogers and Trigger -- Tennessee Walking Horse. He bought Trigger and kept him his whole life <3.
It's a fictional film, but delivers a story that's all-too real: in the 1950s, a six-year-old Ojibwe boy is torn from his family and forced into a residential school, where he is forbidden to speak his language and faces brutal punishment for the tiniest transgressions.Apr 12, 2018
Elizabeth Taylor and King Charles Elizabeth Taylor already knew her co-star before she starred in National Velvet. She'd been riding seven-year-old thoroughbred King Charles at her country club, and personally chose him to play her character's horse, The Pie, in the film.Mar 24, 2018
Westerns expert James Denniston adds, “The Duke [in his early career], Wild Bill Elliott, Randolph Scott, Slim Pickens, Richard Boone and Jimmy Stewart all rode well. As big as he was, Andy Devine was a good rider. Jack Palance hated horses, couldn't ride a step, and Shane was his first riding part.Jan 14, 2009
He is Dollor, John Wayne`s 17-year-old movie horse, which is semi-retired and living on a 7-acre ranch in Midlothian--south of Dallas--with Howard and Debra Keffeler, their 11-year-old son, David, and nine other horses, four dogs, three cats and several chickens.Jan 12, 1985
Saul Indian Horse's brother, who is separated from his family when he is kidnapped by white men and taken to a Christian school for Indigenous children. Nephew of Naomi.Sep 6, 2017
The novel centres on Saul Indian Horse, a First Nations boy from Ontario who survives the residential school system and becomes a talented ice hockey player, only for his past traumas to resurface in his adulthood....Indian Horse.First edition book coverAuthorRichard WagameseMedia typeNovelPages224Preceded byRunaway Dreams6 more rows
In the school, Saul witnesses the nun and instructors abuse the children, and struggles to endure. ... Saul also declines to join Lonnie's escape attempt; Lonnie is recaptured and punished. The school gives up Saul to a foster home in a mining town, where he can further pursue hockey.
Mickey Rooney. He is a horse lover and a horse player of major proportions, and he claimed to have once climbed aboard Seabiscuit and breezed him six furlongs.Oct 3, 2013
1. Viggo Mortensen Bought TJ, the Main Horse Who Played Hidalgo. After filming was over, Viggo Mortensen purchased one of the horses used to play Hidalgo.Sep 15, 2021
Ostensibly, the film is based on the true story of Frank Hopkins, a long-distance horse-racer who is invited to partake in “the Ocean of Fire,” a 3,000-mile horse race across the Arabian Peninsula.Mar 5, 2004
Released in 1983, Phar Lap is a New Zealand made horse movie based on the real-life legendary New Zealand-bred racing horse . The film starts with the mysterious death of Phar Lap and then goes back in time to tell the inspirational story of the horse's rise to the top. Based on the novel by Michael Wilkinson, the film shows how the horse went from longshot to a winner, with an ending that hints that it was unscrupulous gamblers who ended its life.
One of the lesser-known movies on this list, Lean on Pete, came out in 2017. Directed by Andrew Haigh, the film stars Charlie Plummer as Charley, a 15-year-old boy who finds himself orphaned when his dad dies. He learns that the racehorse, Pete, that he cared for is about to be sent to slaughter and steals it, going on the run across the American frontier as the boy and his horse tries to find their way in the world.
Based on the 1982 novel by Michael Morpurgo, Steven Spielberg directed War Horse in 2011 about a thoroughbred horse named Joey . The story starts with Joey's birth and then his training by a boy named Albert. However, when Albert's dad sells Joey to the army when they need money to pay rent after a downpour destroys their crops, Albert watches as his horse is sent off to serve in the war.
As expected, Albert is reunited with Joey. Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Eddie Marsan lead the cast with Jeremy Irvine as Albert. This horse movie received six Oscar nominations.
Seabiscuit is a horse movie from 2003 based on the champion thoroughbred who was the top money-winning racehorse until the '40s. However, there was a lot more to Seabiscuit than just being a racehorse. The horse was also small and became a symbol of hope to Americans during the era of the Great Depression.
Released originally in 1995, The Horse Whisperer was a film directed by Robert Redford, who also starred in the movie. Based on the 1995 novel by Nicholas Evans, Redford plays a horse trainer known as the "Horse Whisperer" who is able to help a young girl ( a teenage Scarlett Johansson) understand horses.
One of the best children's books of all-time about horses was The Black Stallion by Walter Farley. In 1979, five years after it was published, the novel was turned into a movie. The story is about a boy shipwrecked on an island with an Arabian stallion and the friendship he develops with the horse.
The True Grit quotes below are all either spoken by Mattie Ross or refer to Mattie Ross. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ). Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Harry N.
The timeline below shows where the character Mattie Ross appears in True Grit. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Scriptwriters will change their work if something doesn't scan or if something else sounds better as a spoken word.
In the winter when there aren't as many people about, then the only real danced that's done is the "Avoid smelly people on the train dance".
Don McLean's American Pie was one of those songs when originally played on the air had bits cut out to make it fit into playlists. All Around the World by Oasis was 9'02" long on the album but the radio edit was only 4'36". This new Green Day single, Jesus of Suburbia as featured on the album was 9'27" long but somewhere on the radio they've hacked out 6 minutes.
The City of Canberra was proclaimed in 1913 after it was decided that the nation's capital should be half-way between Sydney and Melbourne. At this point the modern-day city exists, as a giant waste of time, space, energy and mass (the whole Einsteinian conglomo).
Peter Crouch ended his agonising wait for a goal in style as Liverpool earned their sixth league win in a row. Crouch thought he had opened the scoring but his deflected shot, which was helped in by Mike Pollitt, was later credited to the Wigan keeper.
There are some questions in life which have easy answers. Is the sun hot? Is the sea wet? Do you want a biscuit? No thought is required to answer these simple queries.
In 1519 Ferdinand Magellan became the first person to sail across the Pacific. In 1927 Charles Kingsford-Smith became the first person to fly across the Pacific. There is now a new nam to add to this, for in 2005 myself, Andrew Thomas Rollason esq. & explorer extraordinare became the first person to walk through the Pacific.