Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken is a 1991 drama film directed by Steve Miner. The screenplay concerns Sonora Webster Carver, a rider of diving horses. Gabrielle Anwar stars as Carver alongside Michael Schoeffling and Cliff Robertson. It is based on events in her life as told in her memoir A Girl and Five Brave Horses.
During the Great Depression Sonora learns that because of her accidentally letting the cows loose and her suspension from school, her treasured horse Lightning has been sold and she will be placed in an orphanage. Instead, Sonora slips out of the house during the night. She ends up at a county fair and sees a performance by Marie, a diving girl who rides a horse off a platform and aspires to do the same.
Sonora keeps her eyes open as they fall into the water. Both make it, but her vision is impaired, which she hides. She continued diving for eleven more years with the audience never learning of her blindness.

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