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Release Date
• USA: Oct 21, 2005
DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 7, 2006
Budget USD 32,000,000
BoxOffice: $32.7M
Official Website:
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MPAA Rating
Rated PG for brief mild language.
Running Time
1 hour, 38 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
S.K.G. Productions LLC, Brass Hat Films, DreamWorks Productions LLC, East Coast Films Inc., Epsilon Motion Pictures, Hyde Park Entertainment, Tollin/Robbins Productions
Studio DreamWorks Distribution LLC
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Other Titles
• Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005)
• Untitled Kurt Russell/Dakota Fanning Project
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Genre: Drama, Family
Plot: Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) was once a great horseman, whose gifts as a trainer were now being wasted on making other men’s fortunes. Soñador—called 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 (Dakota Fanning), to bring these two damaged souls together in a quest for a seemingly impossible goal: to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic.Ben Crane’s (Kris Kristofferson) father whose strained relationship with his son is bridged by their mutual hopes for
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...there's not an inappropriate instance in Dreamer, making it suitable for the under-seven crowd. The problem is that anyone older than that age is going to wish they had shot the horse and gotten things over with in the first fifteen minutes.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
The movie is a well-made use of familiar materials, including the loyalty between a child and a horse that goes back to "National Velvet" (1944) and "The Black Stallion" (1979). It's aimed at an audience of teenagers who may never have heard of those films, and for them, "Dreamer" will be an exciting experience.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
“Dreamer” is said to be inspired by a true story, and the script is very loosely based on the actual tale of a filly called Mariah’s Storm, which came back from a 1993 injury to race again. But everything else in the movie is the purest fiction--and purecorn--and though Gatins and his cast serve it up as slickly as one could ask, it still comes across as more than a little stale. C--Frank Swietek
Bland family fare that goes down easy but neither edifies nor challenges. --Jeanne Aufmuth
Is this a brilliant film? No. It's ordinary in a lot of ways, and it reminds me of why stories like this usually have one parent dead: because the story doesn't have have room for both of them...But it excels in the important areas of warmth and honesty.Most people enjoy a sweet, wholesome movie with an inspiring story; "Dreamer" is a reminder that those people need not be suckers. B+--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
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John Gatins
Coach Carter, Hard Ball, Another Day in Paradise |
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John Gatins
Coach Carter, Hard Ball, Another Day in Paradise |
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Back to the Future Part III, Back to the Future Part II, Hollow Man |
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 | Oded Fehr
The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Resident Evil: Apocalypse |
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John Debney
Sin City, The Passion of the Christ, Bruce Almighty |
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Engaging feel-good drama that gleefully trots out all the usual cliches, to winning effect.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
But this is, after all, a movie. And as far as I’m concerned this comes close to being a perfect movie, one easily enjoyed by children and adults alike. 9/10--Tony Medley
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