Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story Review, Trailer, Pic, Movie Poster

Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story Review

Synopsis: Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story. Now there's a dynamite title. Yet given that the other Hollywood drama called plain old Dreamer was a Tim Matheson flop about the professional bowlers' tour, you can sympathize with filmmakers attempting to sell a fresh angle. Especially when the new film is merely the latest in a litany of girl-and-her-horse yarns.

Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) was once a great horseman, whose gifts as a trainer, were wasted on making other men's fortunes. Sonya was once a great horse, whose promising career on the racetrack was cut short, suddenly, by a broken leg. Considered as good as dead to her owner--who also happens to be Ben's boss--Sonya is given to Ben as his severance pay, along with his walking papers. Now, it will take the unwavering faith and determination of Ben's young daughter, Cale (Dakota Fanning), to bring these two damaged souls together in a quest for a seemingly impossible goal: to win the Breeders' Cup Classic. However, the true miracle might be that, in helping this injured horse, what they are actually healing is their own family.