Dreamer is the typical and necessary film that everyone loves but many criticize its lack of unpredictability. In fact, that kind of drama in general suffers from this problem, but are in the works so we value more than the path we stop to think about the final destination, where we are led. And this piece really deserves. As dramas involving horses, as in the case of the successful The Horse Whisperer (1998) led by Robert Redford, and more recently by the great Seabiscuit (2003) from director Gary Ross have here a drama that involves animals and how they interfere or influence in our own lives or relationships. The director of this drama is Gattins John, who makes his directorial debut, but nevertheless already had the experience roteirizar dramas that involve overcoming such Hardball (2001) by Brian Robbins, and especially Coach Carter (2005) by director Thomas Carter.
Even with that experience in the genre, Gattins had thought of a boy to star in the story, but he saw that would only get the studio to finance his project if he could convince the greatest child star of the moment carries it. It was then that Dakota Fanning joined the project. Dakota has already debuted on the rise since it debuted in cinema as a young child and remained so, having in its curriculum works like I Am Sam (2001) with Sean Penn, Man on Fire (2004) with Denzel Washington, and most recently having worked with master Robert De Niro in 2005 film Hide and Seek and the same year with War of the Worlds starring alongside Tom Cruise.
With the addition of the always exceptional Dakota, was up to the director to call another name of weight that would be the other protagonist of the plot, and it was Kurt Russell's turn to join the project. Unlike Dakota, starring Russell came several years before bad movies, the most recent of which, the film Poseidon (2006). To complete the cast, we Elisabeth Shue, Dakota who had worked in Hide and Seek, veteran Kris Kristofferson, Freddy Rodríguez, Luis Guzmán, Oded Fehr and David Morse as "villain" of the plot. Gattins had succeeded, finally, a cast of respect.
In the plot, Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) is a coach who takes care of horses for other owners. Before a race, Ben Palmer warns his boss that the mare is restless and would not be ready to run. Palmer ignores the warning and during a race, the mare Soñador, daughter of champions and an incredible potential as a racehorse, ends up falling and fracturing one paw. Palmer asks then to sacrifice it and dismisses Ben who is against the decision and he er been forced to put her to run. Ben accepts a portion of the money that the employer owed him and Soñador as part payment. Ben then goes on to look after the mare along with his friends, the jockey Manolin (Freddy Rodriguez) and caregiver Balon (Luis Guzman) and his daughter Cale (Dakota Fanning), who sees a chance to get closer to his father through his job. When the horse is ready to run short, Ben and Cale enter you decide to dispute the Breeder's Cup, a major horse race. It is said that the story is true and happened in 1995, and a horse named Mariah's Storm.
The film starts with an aerial shot flying over several farms, with its green pastures and clean, which culminates in the old family home and worn Crane. The pictures and the frames of John Gatins create the excitement necessary to the plot coupled with the emotional soundtrack, smooth and incredibly sentimental and appropriate John Debney (Sin City (2005)), and Cale's background narration about the past when this place was full of horses and now there were none. And there we see the sad look Cale and the plot started. This feature of narration in the background is a common technique, and that despite being very usual, works in most cases. Here there is no abuse, with the narration being placed at specific times, emphasizing phrases that will guide future relationships and moments of the plot (such as phrases champion, simulating the narrator of the race by the voice of Cale).
Again, the actress Dakota Fanning shows exquisite and versatile it is. Their friendliness, charisma, smile and beauty supplant the big names of the cast and is definitely the strength of the film. In a drama that strength, that child with the qualities and talents of the young girl to be better than her? She is a young above average in all aspects and truly excites. The scene where she gets emotional easily in a touching scene with Russell after Russell's character having read the letter with the story she wrote in high school about the king stupid is a touching moment. What about the scene where Cale takes off sprinting on the back of Soñador Ben and his father out with the car desperately trying to catch her? Or the face of lack of joy and soon after when the father agrees to let her go with him to work or to stud farm of a friend to get a stallion to Soñador. Dakota gives show when he discovers that the mare is barren and has a beautiful scene comforting the animal and shows extreme charisma and naturalness in the scenes in which the animal tries to enroll in the Breeder's Cup, during training and, of course, the final climax.
Kurt Russell also has great scenes alongside Dakota, Shue and Kristofferson and this is his best work in years. He has a chance to start as a villain, a man embittered that he had to go to the farms selling slowly, it did not have much intimacy with her daughter, a man who learned to believe again, to dream, to give attention to daughter , to reconcile with his father, turning over a journey of redemption.
Dreamy is indeed a film that we know how it will end after a half hour display, but excels in its various triumphs and virtues, as in moments of thrill. Director John Gattins uses all the clichés of this kind of movie and let them know nice and predictable plot turns scenes into something full of charisma that appeals to the public in full. One thing this film can do well, is thrilled with a instrumental soundtrack and impeccable make anyone break into tears as the end credits with the beautiful song "Dreamer" Brittany Dillon. These moments of excitement are propitiated by a competent cast and handpicked, where there is no slippage or discrepancies. Besides the exciting soundtrack, art direction and photography are sublime, despite the onslaught of scenes in close. Note that there was an immense care with all the sets, and the racecourse is where the final race is the highlight.
The film is an authentic family drama that captivates. It's no fun blockbuster, but a reflection on the uplifting of a family by the symbology of a mare who came to change everyone's life. As Cale says at one point when her father sells: "She was our horse." Soñador was why Cale moved closer to her father, who did not pay much attention to her despite her overwhelming desire to spend more with him. She always loved and love in spite of everything and just needed more attention and care. With the arrival of the animal, the two began to learn more and to live through something that is in the family blood: a passion for horse racing; Even disliking her grandfather taught about racing for the girl, her interest never died and always asked his grandfather to tell more stories about horses for her. Besides the relationship Cale and Ben, the mare just approaching other father and another son, Ben Crane and Pop, they faced problems long ago. Even if the relationship is not detailed in the film about the past of the two and the family, it is evident love of both and how they needed that rapprochement.
More than a racing movie and beautiful images, is a work that emphasizes the love, the forgiveness, the importance of dreaming and the reconstruction of a family base that had dissolved a long time. The typical work that makes us reflect, cherish those we love, to learn what matters in life, to give attention to detail and that excites us all the time and using wisely the mare Soñador as a symbol of all that. A film for invigorating the soul and the heart. More than recommended and should be seen as often as possible with the whole family.
Even with that experience in the genre, Gattins had thought of a boy to star in the story, but he saw that would only get the studio to finance his project if he could convince the greatest child star of the moment carries it. It was then that Dakota Fanning joined the project. Dakota has already debuted on the rise since it debuted in cinema as a young child and remained so, having in its curriculum works like I Am Sam (2001) with Sean Penn, Man on Fire (2004) with Denzel Washington, and most recently having worked with master Robert De Niro in 2005 film Hide and Seek and the same year with War of the Worlds starring alongside Tom Cruise.
With the addition of the always exceptional Dakota, was up to the director to call another name of weight that would be the other protagonist of the plot, and it was Kurt Russell's turn to join the project. Unlike Dakota, starring Russell came several years before bad movies, the most recent of which, the film Poseidon (2006). To complete the cast, we Elisabeth Shue, Dakota who had worked in Hide and Seek, veteran Kris Kristofferson, Freddy Rodríguez, Luis Guzmán, Oded Fehr and David Morse as "villain" of the plot. Gattins had succeeded, finally, a cast of respect.
In the plot, Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) is a coach who takes care of horses for other owners. Before a race, Ben Palmer warns his boss that the mare is restless and would not be ready to run. Palmer ignores the warning and during a race, the mare Soñador, daughter of champions and an incredible potential as a racehorse, ends up falling and fracturing one paw. Palmer asks then to sacrifice it and dismisses Ben who is against the decision and he er been forced to put her to run. Ben accepts a portion of the money that the employer owed him and Soñador as part payment. Ben then goes on to look after the mare along with his friends, the jockey Manolin (Freddy Rodriguez) and caregiver Balon (Luis Guzman) and his daughter Cale (Dakota Fanning), who sees a chance to get closer to his father through his job. When the horse is ready to run short, Ben and Cale enter you decide to dispute the Breeder's Cup, a major horse race. It is said that the story is true and happened in 1995, and a horse named Mariah's Storm.
The film starts with an aerial shot flying over several farms, with its green pastures and clean, which culminates in the old family home and worn Crane. The pictures and the frames of John Gatins create the excitement necessary to the plot coupled with the emotional soundtrack, smooth and incredibly sentimental and appropriate John Debney (Sin City (2005)), and Cale's background narration about the past when this place was full of horses and now there were none. And there we see the sad look Cale and the plot started. This feature of narration in the background is a common technique, and that despite being very usual, works in most cases. Here there is no abuse, with the narration being placed at specific times, emphasizing phrases that will guide future relationships and moments of the plot (such as phrases champion, simulating the narrator of the race by the voice of Cale).
Again, the actress Dakota Fanning shows exquisite and versatile it is. Their friendliness, charisma, smile and beauty supplant the big names of the cast and is definitely the strength of the film. In a drama that strength, that child with the qualities and talents of the young girl to be better than her? She is a young above average in all aspects and truly excites. The scene where she gets emotional easily in a touching scene with Russell after Russell's character having read the letter with the story she wrote in high school about the king stupid is a touching moment. What about the scene where Cale takes off sprinting on the back of Soñador Ben and his father out with the car desperately trying to catch her? Or the face of lack of joy and soon after when the father agrees to let her go with him to work or to stud farm of a friend to get a stallion to Soñador. Dakota gives show when he discovers that the mare is barren and has a beautiful scene comforting the animal and shows extreme charisma and naturalness in the scenes in which the animal tries to enroll in the Breeder's Cup, during training and, of course, the final climax.
Kurt Russell also has great scenes alongside Dakota, Shue and Kristofferson and this is his best work in years. He has a chance to start as a villain, a man embittered that he had to go to the farms selling slowly, it did not have much intimacy with her daughter, a man who learned to believe again, to dream, to give attention to daughter , to reconcile with his father, turning over a journey of redemption.
Dreamy is indeed a film that we know how it will end after a half hour display, but excels in its various triumphs and virtues, as in moments of thrill. Director John Gattins uses all the clichés of this kind of movie and let them know nice and predictable plot turns scenes into something full of charisma that appeals to the public in full. One thing this film can do well, is thrilled with a instrumental soundtrack and impeccable make anyone break into tears as the end credits with the beautiful song "Dreamer" Brittany Dillon. These moments of excitement are propitiated by a competent cast and handpicked, where there is no slippage or discrepancies. Besides the exciting soundtrack, art direction and photography are sublime, despite the onslaught of scenes in close. Note that there was an immense care with all the sets, and the racecourse is where the final race is the highlight.
The film is an authentic family drama that captivates. It's no fun blockbuster, but a reflection on the uplifting of a family by the symbology of a mare who came to change everyone's life. As Cale says at one point when her father sells: "She was our horse." Soñador was why Cale moved closer to her father, who did not pay much attention to her despite her overwhelming desire to spend more with him. She always loved and love in spite of everything and just needed more attention and care. With the arrival of the animal, the two began to learn more and to live through something that is in the family blood: a passion for horse racing; Even disliking her grandfather taught about racing for the girl, her interest never died and always asked his grandfather to tell more stories about horses for her. Besides the relationship Cale and Ben, the mare just approaching other father and another son, Ben Crane and Pop, they faced problems long ago. Even if the relationship is not detailed in the film about the past of the two and the family, it is evident love of both and how they needed that rapprochement.
More than a racing movie and beautiful images, is a work that emphasizes the love, the forgiveness, the importance of dreaming and the reconstruction of a family base that had dissolved a long time. The typical work that makes us reflect, cherish those we love, to learn what matters in life, to give attention to detail and that excites us all the time and using wisely the mare Soñador as a symbol of all that. A film for invigorating the soul and the heart. More than recommended and should be seen as often as possible with the whole family.