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Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
       
  Release Date: 10/21/05 (Future Release)

Starring: Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Freddy Rodriguez, Kris Kristofferson, Elisabeth Shue

Director: John Gatins

Rating: (PG)
 
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Genre
  Drama, Family
   
  Running Time
  98 min
   
  Distributor
  Dreamworks
   
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NEW YORK VIEW
What is it with Dakota Fanning—can this young actress do no wrong? She and Kurt Russell, as her father, redeem the old racehorse-triumphant genre in this warm, sincere tale of a girl and her dad nursing an injured horse back to health. Fanning and Russell don't know how to be corny, and no one will come away from this movie without an unabashed smile.

CINEMASOURCE SYNOPSIS
Ben Crane was once a great horseman, whose gifts as a trainer were now being wasted on making other men's fortunes. Sonya was a great horse whose promising future on the racetrack was suddenly cut short by a career-ending broken leg. Considered as good as dead to her owner, who also happens to be Ben's boss, Sonya is given to Ben as severance pay, along with his walking papers. Now, it will take the unwavering faith and determination of Ben's young daughter, Cale, to bring these two damaged souls together in a quest for a seemingly impossible goal: to win the Breeders' Cup Classic.