Synopsis  (Country : USA)

The Horse Whisperer

Fourteen year old Grace Maclean, horse riding in winter, survives a ghastly road accident that kills her friend. Grace must have her right leg amputated and her horse, Pilgrim miraculously alive, seems traumatized beyond salvation.

Dealing with her daughter’s calamity, high-powered and sophisticated magazine editor Annie Maclean somehow decides not to have the horse put down. Vaguely intuiting that her daughter’s recovery may be tied to that of Pilgrims. Annie doggedly tracks down a man who reportedly has a special gift with horses.

Finally, the will in Annie and the urgent need in Grace and Pilgrim inspires the interest of the self-contained and seemingly self-sufficient man, who lives an old fashioned farming life with his younger brother, his wife and kids.

Not to forget a keen sense of character and intuition.

Credits:-
Directed by Robert Redford

Cast:
Tom Alter (Robert Redford) Annie Maclean (Kristin Scott Thomas) Robert Maclean? (Sam Neill) Diane Booker ? (Dianne Wiest)

Robert Redford has well wide acclaim for his work as a producer, director, actor, champion of independent film and environmentalist. The Horse Whisperer is the first film Robert Redford has directed in which he also stars.

His directing debut an intensely emotional family drama Ordinary People won him a Best Director Academy Award. He was also nominated for directing "Quiz Show". As an actor, he received an Academy Award nomination for his performance in The Sting.

Other films directed and produced by him are The Milagre Beanfield War and A River Runs Through It and was executive producer/narrator on a documentary about the Native American activist Leonard Pelfier (?)

A strong advocate of independent filmmaking, Redford founded the Sundance Institute in 1980, an organization dedicated to the new American independent cinema. The Institute is also the sponsor of the annual Sundance Film Festival. Today the most important venue for the presentation of independent films is The United States.