Dreamer

2005

Action / Drama / Family / Sport

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 78% · 115 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 14649 14.6K

based on a true story sports parent child relationship horse race horse kentucky

Plot summary

Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the mare and save it from being sacrificed by the owner.

Director

John Gatins Photo
John Gatins

Top cast

Dakota Fanning Photo
Dakota Fanning as Cale Crane
Kurt Russell Photo
Kurt Russell as Ben Crane
Oded Fehr Photo
Oded Fehr as Prince Sadir
Elisabeth Shue Photo
Elisabeth Shue as Lily
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968.21 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 4
968.7 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 1
1.94 GB
1920*800
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 14
1.94 GB
1920*800
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 12

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by maknight71 8 / 10

Superb Story-telling

I was lucky enough to be able to preview this film on October 6, in Greenville, SC with my wife. While I had seen the previews several months ago for this film and thought it looked pretty good, I went in thinking it would be just another "chick flick". I was wrong. The story-telling was superb and very rarely dragged along, holding the attention well (I never looked at my watch). The acting was very good from all involved and Dakota is cute as ever. The drama was riveting without being over done or heavy-handed. All in all this film is a winner (no puns intended) and great for people of all ages (and genders).
Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 7 / 10

cliché sentimental movie and that's fine by me

Cale Crane (Dakota Fanning) lives on a horse farm with no horses. Their farm is holding on with her mother Lily (Elisabeth Shue) working as a diner waitress. Her father Ben (Kurt Russell) doesn't get along with his father Pop (Kris Kristofferson). Ben trains horses for the rich owner Palmer (David Morse) who races his horse despite Ben's advise. The horse is injured and Palmer wants to put her down. Palmer fires Ben. Ben takes the horse for compensation. Partly through obsession, partly through skills, partly with love, and the hard work of everybody including Manolin (Freddy Rodriguez) and Balon (Luis Guzman), they bring her back to health. It's a roller-coaster ride when they find out that she is infertile.This is an unabashed sentimental movie. Russell is great as the strong solid father under pressure. It's a good move that his character is healing the horse for the money rather than any moral stance. Fanning is adorable enough and spunky enough. It's a terrific underdog story. The movie is full of familiar clichés. It's probably too overloaded with them but Russell and Fanning make them work most of the time.
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