The Electric Horseman

1979

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Western

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 21 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 11021 11K

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Plot summary

A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse, he discovers it is being doped to remain docile. He flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.

Director

Sydney Pollack Photo
Sydney Pollack

Top cast

Will Hare Photo
Will Hare as Gus
Quinn K. Redeker Photo
Quinn K. Redeker as Bud Broderick
Basil Hoffman Photo
Basil Hoffman as Toland
John Saxon Photo
John Saxon as Hunt Sears
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1.08 GB
1280*548
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 0 min
Seeds 3
2.01 GB
1904*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 0 min
Seeds 15

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Ettore_Francesco 7 / 10

You are all wrong...!!!!

This film is not about the horse, is not about a romance.The film portraits the unstoppable greed of a corporation confronted with the moral values of a true cowboy and how he realize he has lost that spirit that took him to became a cowboy. This film is intended to show how we destroy everything we touch just to increase our profits.So, you are right about the hairstyle, the wardrobe, everything is so 70's.But the message is not old in fact is so XXI century as your brand new digital cameras.This film made me understand my family, my past, present and future.Now I see what my father tried to taught me, what my brothers understood years ago.
Reviewed by TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews 6 / 10

The horse fairy-tale

I like Pollack. I'm not sure there's anything that I wouldn't at least give a chance, as long as he had an important part in the making of it. This is probably the most formulaic thing I've seen of his... which isn't to say that it's necessarily bad. It's just that, well, if you don't see the majority of what happens in this, coming, the likeliest explanation is that you haven't seen one of the many films that follow essentially the same plot. It's not exactly unpredictable. The points of it are also made in a pretty see-through manner, with poignant speeches and the like. But with those in mind, and the fact that this isn't necessarily meant to be taken too seriously, this isn't bad. The direction is effective. Its editing and cinematography are well-done. The acting leaves little to be desired. The writing is good. The characters are at least average. The music is very fitting. That would be the original version, with Willie Nelson performing it, not the other kind. There is a limited amount of language in it, of varying degree, not a lot of which is terribly harsh. The drug/alcohol material is vague, and the sexuality tends to be tastefully done(for being partially set in Las Vegas, this is mighty clean). I recommend this to any lovers of the four-legged animal, Redford, Fonda and/or anyone else who helped create this. 6/10
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