

And without any integrity or taste, I am doomed to fail as a movie reviewer. The other reason is that I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH and there’s no way I can write an unbiased review, which will simultaneously destroy any illusion of my journalistic integrity and get your hopes for this film so high that when you watch it you’ll inevitably be let down and question my taste in films. But it’s still on instant right now, so technically it counts! Plus, you could always add it to your DVD queue. The first is that Netflix will be taking Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken off of the instant watch on 10/19/10 (in other words, TOMORROW), so by the time anyone reads this it probably won’t be available. I'm offering that strictly as an hypothesis.I’m a little hesitant to review this movie, for two reasons. A 12-year-old girl, on the other hand, might like this movie a lot. The movie has undeniable charms, and yet I found myself unpersuaded, perhaps because I resist having my emotions manipulated with cinematic chiropractic. Movies like this remind me of a more innocent time, of films like "Lassie Come Home" and "National Velvet," and characters like Andy Hardy. but how far can I go with this plot synopsis without revealing a major secret, and how can I meaningfully discuss the movie without mentioning it? Let's just say that something unforseen and tragic happens to Sonora, but that she fights back courageously, and that the movie assists this process with as much pathos and cornball sentiment as it can manage. Carver's son Al ( Michael Schoeffling) is not blind to Sonora's beauty and her other qualities, and after an appropriate period of time has passed and she has grown into a young woman, he falls in love with her. Sonora of course immediately dreams of riding the horse herself, despite the fact that the formidable Marie ( Kathleen York) already has the job.ĭr. Carver ( Cliff Robertson), who runs a midway attraction in which a bathing beauty rides a horse that is trained to dive from a high platform into water. On the road, Sonora joins up with a circus that conveniently happens by, and soon has a job as a stable girl with the colorful Dr.
