The Horse Whisperer (1998)
Director:
Robert Redford
Actors:
Tom Booker
Annie MacLean
Robert MacLean
Diane Booker
Grace MacLean
Rating:
(46’810 votes)
(46’810 votes)
Quotes:
« Tom Booker: There was a boy from the Blackfeet reservation, he used to do some work around here for a while. Sixteen, strong kid, good kid. He and I were really, really good friends. One day he went swimming and dove headfirst into the lake… and right into a rock. And it snapped his neck, paralyzed him. And after the accident I'd look in on him from time to time. But he wasn't there. It was like his mind, his spirit, whatever you want to call it, just disappeared. The only thing left was just anger. Just sort of as if the… the boy I once knew just went somewhere else.
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« Grace: I know where he goes.
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« Tom Booker: I know you do. Don't you disappear. You do whatever you have to do to hold on.
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« Grace: Are you afraid of anything, Tom Booker?
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« Tom Booker: Of growing old. Being of no use.
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« Annie: I've heard you help people with horse problems.
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« Tom Booker: Truth is, I help horses with people problems.
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Trailer:
Official Trailer
Runtime:169 minutes
Plots:
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl’s equally injured horse.
Teenager Grace MacLean (Scarlett Johansson) is riding her horse and is hit by a truck. To help heal her troubled and injured daughter, and horse, the mother, Annie MacLean (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas), takes them to Montana to recuperate at the ranch of Tom Booker (Robert Redford), a “horse whisperer”, a horse healer of mystical talents. Annie proceeds to fall in love with him, as well.
It is a cold winter night. Grace MacLean (Scarlett Johansson) and her best friend Judith (Kate Bosworth) go for a ride with their horses, but a terrible accident changes their lives forever. A truck hits them, Judith and her horse are killed, while Grace and her horse Pilgrim are seriously injured, both physically and mentally. In an attempt to bring Pilgrim back from his now savage condition, Grace’s mother Annie (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) takes them to Montana in search of Tom Booker (Robert Redford). Tom is a “horse whisperer”, a cowboy with the ability to “communicate” with horses. In the land of the Wild West, Annie will change the way she sees life forever, as the wise cowboy slowly heals the souls of Pilgrim and Grace.
