Tuesday, October 31, 2006
HORSEY
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was
This is a great family film. Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Sexton, Donald Crisp and a great cast including the adolescent Angela Lansbury all work together for a heart tugging (yes) experience.
This is a movie movie. The mold has been broken.
I will give it a 5 out of Netflix5.
I never saw this when it was around. I thought it was about horses I guess. Oddly, it is not. The horse quotient is fairly low.
Back then I didn't like them. Now, I am less cold to the experience. I have ridden some but I have not bonded to the beast.
It is not necessary to be horsey for this film. There is, in fact, a great dog so we had a great time.
What the film is about is family values. The real ones.
One other thing. This is a picture with moral lessons. Good ones. One is about the phases of life; accepting them and moving on. Very nice.
Another is about earning trust and trusting so that someone can learn about it.
This is the mold that got broken. Kids pictures always had this kind of thing in it. It added to the whole experience and made a difference in kids' lives.
