Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story

DreamWorks offers a well-crafted piece of family entertainment | Andrew Coffin

The second Kentucky-set film to reach theaters during the month of October, Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story is a thoroughly pleasant, well-crafted piece of family entertainment.

Dreamer (rated PG for brief mild language) is a DreamWorks release that may as well open with the famous Disney castle, telling the very Disney-fied story of a girl and her horse. And if that suggests that the film may lack a certain complexity and realism, Dreamer is nonetheless as solid a fairy tale as anything produced by the Mouse House.

Dakota Fanning (War of the Worlds) plays Cale Crane, daughter of horse trainer Ben Crane (Kurt Russell). Ben is a skilled trainer whose once grand family farm is fading into disrepair. His losing streak continues until Ben is left with a near-useless horse and no job. Details begin to emerge about Ben's once promising career and his strained relationship with his horse-trainer father (Kris Kristofferson), which is feeding into Ben's somewhat tentative relationship with his own daughter.

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October 29, 2005, Vol. 20, No. 42

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