This is a story about healing the soul as well as the body, using medicine that is anything but traditional. After a young girl is thrown from her horse, she looses a leg as well as her will to live while the horse becomes dangerous and uncontrollable.
Against the better judgment of her husband and co-workers, the girl's mother takes daughter and horse west to Montana, to the location of a "horse whisperer," someone who communicates on a deep level with animals.
Robert Redford plays Tom Booker, the horse whisperer with the power to bring horses and humans out of their deep wells of pain and back to a life of love and meaning.
Kristin Scott Thomas co-stars as the injured girl's mother, a self-possessed magazine editor from New York who doesn't suspect she needs any attention herself.
The Horse Whisperer is based upon the runaway best-seller by first-time novelist Nicholas Evans, the proverbial starving artist who had creditors banging on the door as he was finishing the book. When the money started pouring in, Evans was as surprised as the bankers. His own story is as compelling as his romantic and moving novel.
Great story, great acting, superb photography.
I felt the movie had something in it for humans and animals.We need more horse movies, I have been a disabled rider for the past 13yrs, my horse is now my legs on long journeys, more people need to be aware and allow all horse people access to parks, disabled riders need a horse not a wheel chair..This movie re-affirmed thatpatience, love and trust, can help put things into perspective, never give up on hope.The Bookers were people you would want as your neighbours.Thank you for this movie.MJS Ontario Canada
I loved it I bought the dvd Any film with Robert Redford would be welcome I love the man.