War Horse

Inspir­ing story of a horse and a young man as they deal with hard­ship and tragedy. Very good fam­ily val­ues, espe­cially about learn­ing to under­stand the “demons” that haunt our par­ents and dis­cov­er­ing the quiet hero­ism of our par­ents in spite of their weak­nesses and lim­i­ta­tions. The boy’s father suf­fers from occa­sional alco­holism and gen­eral dis­cour­age­ment about the dif­fi­cult life that cir­cum­stances have made him live. He buys the horse at an exor­bi­tant price in order to show up his mean land­lord at an auc­tion, but the bravado only seems to guar­an­tee that the land­lord will have the bet­ter hand by tak­ing away their home. Yet the boy is able to cre­ate such a chem­istry with the horse that they begin to do the impos­si­ble. But that is only the begin­ning of the adven­ture. See the movie to find out the rest. Good movie. Some of the scenes towards the end are a bit exag­ger­ated, but it is gen­er­ally very well done. New teen actress Celine Buck­ens does a beau­ti­ful job as the orphaned French girl Emily who pro­tects the horse on part of the adventure.

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