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The Horse Whisperer

The Horse Whisperer

Adventure · Drama · Romance · 1998

The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.

Movie details

The Horse Whisperer

1998 Adventure · Drama · Romance 2h 49m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.7 / 10

45.8K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

73 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

65 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.9 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Robert Redford

Written by

Richard LaGravenese · Eric Roth

Robert Redford

Robert Redford

Tom Booker

Kristin Scott Thomas

Kristin Scott Thomas

Annie MacLean

Sam Neill

Sam Neill

Robert MacLean

Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson

Grace MacLean

Dianne Wiest

Dianne Wiest

Diane Booker

Chris Cooper

Chris Cooper

Frank Booker

Cherry Jones

Cherry Jones

Liz Hammond

Court is in session

Put The Horse Whisperer on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.