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 Flicka :: 0876590091
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| Can a wild horse with a bad attitude and a not-quite-wild but pretty darn sullen teenage girl with a bad attitude be the best things that ever happened to each other? Though we guess the answer pretty early on in Flicka, it doesn't diminish the feel-good family film one bit. The film is a remake of the 1947 My Friend Flicka itself based on the bestselling (and still riveting) novel by Mary O'Hara, and starring a young Roddy McDowall as the aimless teen hero. This 2006 update changes the hero to a heroine, Katy (Alison Lohman), though the dynamic is similar, and in some ways makes the appeal of the film broader. After all, young girls love their horses, and Katy's moxie and determination, as she opens her heart to the wild filly, a touchingly and humanly conveyed. As Katy struggles with her relationship with her gruff dad (given an excellent performance by country star Tim McGraw), she finds she can gain confidence and be the person her father wants her to be--solely by being herself as she connects with Flicka the horse. The cinematography is stunning, and showcases a part of America that once was seen and celebrated often in films, and lately so rare as to be precious. --A.T. Hurley Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
Okay, listen. My friends went to see this movie. I was in the process of moving so couldn't go with them, but they totally loved it. Scenery, horses,ranching...welcome to the REAL America, the heart and soul of the country. Unfortunately, a two yearlings died in the making-of. I love horses, and work with them on a regular basis, and want to say THINGS INVOLVING EQUINES GO WRONG! They, although are domesticated, are still wild at heart, and someone probably got a cell-phone call while wrangling the colts and spooked them.
[...] Treat yourself to a good piece of American filmmaking and enjoy.
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Author: Guest
Since not just one, but TWO horses were reported to have been killed during the making of this film, I have no interest in seeing a fairy tale that was produced by people who apparently know and appreciate a lot about making money but little about consideration for horses. I have lived with horses for nearly all of my 65 years and can find no justification for any such unnecessary human exploitation of animal life.
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Author: Guest
I am a long time fan of Tim McGraw. I have not seen this movie. I will own this movie when it is released on DVD.
I had a newborn and was unable to go and see the movie.
I want to speak on behalph of Tim McGraw.
Anyone that knows Tim McGraw and follows his career and apreciates his talent and his charitable efforts, knows him.
If you know Tim you would know that he would not have completed this film nor continued to be apart of it if horses were being abused in the making of this film.
If you know Tim, you know he's not just a celebrity but past the stardom lights he is a real person that has an undying love for his wife, children, family, friends, his ranch, his horses. That's right he owns a ranch with horses.
Tim would never be apart of something that caused cruilty to horses much less any animal, not just because of the character that he is but he would not represent himself that way to his children.
He's loved by millions, and has a repiutation and everything he does, weither a part in a film or a song he sings, he would not do it unless it had meaning, and something he believed in.
I also want to say to the guy that claims he worked on the set. Buddy get real. Fox and Tim could sue you for slander.
Let's face it I'm sure that horses have died in prior fims, and accidental injuries weither it be bulls, sheep, cows or people, when there is a stampede someone will get hurt.
You know I support him and his wife in all they do. And if you see them as the people they are then you know their true reality and what they stand for.
I think it's more important to spend your time in efforts of stopping REAL animal abuse, you could start in your own neighborhood. I mean there are real animal abuse cases that are alarming and more needs to be done. Daily animals suffer til their death. But I guess it's more important to spend time glorrifying an accident on a movie set that caused 2 deaths because suddenly people see $ dollar signs.
I mean face it any movie that shows an animal the activists run around like their pants on fire. You need to care about real cases with real evidence not rumors that make big bucks talking about it in the tabloids.
So while you may think you will acomplish getting people fired up over animal abuse and persuade folks to not buy the dvd, you won't win this fan over.
I will support this film and Tim McGraw.
People are inclined to make their own opions and their own decisions.
Here's a clue, you don't like it...don't watch it!
Gee...that's real hard isn't it? I guess it's more fun to pick apart someone else's talent so you can make yourself feel better.
If you haven't seen it, watch it then make your judgements.
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Author: Guest
This is a great movie for any horse lover!!! it is a wonderful story about a girl named katy, who is forced to go to a boarding school, but is VERY happy to be back at her family's ranch for the summer. Katy loves horses, and one morning she meets a wild mustang, and immediatley falls in love with her. the next day she attempts to catch the horse, but rather causes trouble for the ranch horses. her father is angry about the mustang, and catches her himself. Katy is determined to train the mustang and make her her own, but her father refuses to let her. so each night she sneaks out to train with the horse, but one night is caught. the next morning her father sells Flicka, as Katy calls the mustang, and Katy decides she will do anything and everything to get her beloved horse back. it is a exciting, funny, heart warming movie that all will love.
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Author: Guest
The fact that two horses reportedly died during the making of FLICKA is an irrelevance. This film is otherwise so juvenile that only an adolescent female and her horse could love it - i.e., 5 star "family entertainment". For the adult world, which I like to think includes myself, it may be one of the more forgettable films of 2006 - 2 stars.
Katy McLaughlin (Alison Lohman) attends a pricey, boarding prep school in Wyoming. Returning home at the scholastic term's end, she must figure out how to tell her parents, horse ranchers in deep hock because of the tuition and hard business times, that her performance on a final essay was so dismal that she's being academically held back a year. Her Mom and older brother, Nell (Maria Bello) and Howard (Ryan Kwanten) respectively, are sympathetic. Her Dad, Rob (Tim McGraw), is angry and disgusted.
Her first morning back on the spread, Katy goes horseback riding and is thrown from her mount by a cougar, which is subsequently scared off by a lone mustang. Being rescued by the animal ensures Katy's love for it, and she gallops forth again the next day to rope the horse and make it her own. She only succeeds in driving the mustang into one of her father's domestic herds, stampeding the latter. After the dust dies down, the mustang is captured and brought back to a prison corral up by the Big House. Rob wants to sell the beast to a rodeo; Katy names her Flicka and wants to keep and train it. Considering Katy's low standing with Ol' Dad at the moment, the subsequent conflict between father and daughter is, well, as strident as you can imagine.
The best part of FLICKA is the gorgeous Wyoming scenery, though, with the tell-tale oak trees, the set looks suspiciously at times like coastal California. Indeed the big time rodeo ostensibly set at the Wyoming State Fair more resembles an event staged for the camera in Simi Valley just north of Los Angeles. The storyline was otherwise oh so predictable: the mortal perils encountered by Katy and her hoss, Katy's "I'll show you" rebellion against Rob's hard-headedness, Nell's "good-guy" approach to parenting contrasting Rob's "bad-guy" routine, and the caught-in-the-middle positions forced upon Howard and the two ranch hands. At one point, when Katy is sick and Flicka grievously injured, the former gives Rob permission to shoot them both. My thought was, "Oh, please, pull the trigger and put me out of my misery."
20th Century Fox was excoriated by animal lovers for the deaths of the two horses during production, and the resultant bad press undoubtedly had its PR department spinning into overtime. The ironic thing is, if the studio vows to never again to do another schmaltzy pony epic, it'll be because of the bad PR experience, not because the script was too silly to begin with and shouldn't even have escaped from whatever production meeting approves such things.
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