The Horse Whisperer (1998)

PG-13
164 min
Drama
May 14, 1998

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Critics Score

73%

Release Date

May 14, 1998

Director

Robert Redford

Writers

Nick Evans
Eric Roth
Richard LaGravenese

Cast

The Horse Whisperer Synopsis

"... A million years before the birth of man, they grazed the vast empty plains of grass and crossed to other continents over bridges of rock ... They first knew man as the hunted knows the hunter, for long before man saw horses as a means to killing other beasts, man killed them for meat ...

"...The alliance with man would forever be fragile -- for the fear he'd struck into their hearts was too deep to be dislodged ... Since that Neolithic moment when a horse was first haltered."

"... there were those among men who understood this ... They could see into the creature's soul and soothe the wounds they found there ...

" ... For secrets uttered softly into troubled ears, these men were known as The Whisperers ..."
Touchstone Pictures proudly presents the romantic drama, "The Horse Whisperer." Directed by and starring Academy Award winner Robert Redford, Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas, Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest, Sam Neill and presenting Scarlett Johansson.

Robert Redford directs and stars in this poignant story of 14-year-old Grace MacLean (SCARLETT JOHANSSON) who is emotionally and physically scarred after suffering a terrible riding accident while astride her prized horse, Pilgrim.

Realizing that the fates of her daughter and the horse are inextricably linked, Grace's mother, Annie (KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS), a high-powered magazine editor, launches an all-out campaign to find a "horse whisperer," someone with a unique gift for curing troubled horses. She learns of Tom Booker (ROBERT REDFORD) known to be a legend for this sort of work and packs up both Grace and Pilgrim to seek his help in Montana.

While Tom works to rebuild all the lives that have been shattered by the accident, love blossoms between the gentle horseman and the uprooted sophisticate, a love with both wonderful and tragic consequences in Touchstone Pictures' romantic drama, "The Horse Whisperer."