Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken Movie Review 1991

Depicts the true-life story of Sonora Webster, a small town Georgia girl who runs away from a foster home to join a carnival in the early 1930s, hoping to become a stunt rider. She becomes a horse-diver (a Depression-era sideshow phenomena) and is blinded in a diving accident, but returns to find romance and ride again. Storyline has little screen tension, but it doesn't detract from this fresh family film with a feisty heroine, a sweet romance, and horses. Nice U.S. screen debut for British actress Anwar.

Distribution

Walt Disney Home Video, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521, Phone: (818)265-6500, URL: http://disney.store.go.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS
Running time 89 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Drama, Great Depression, Carnivals & Circuses, Horses, Blindness, Adoption & Orphans, Disney Family Movies, True Stories, This Is Your Life

Screenplay

Oley Sassone

Cast

Gabrielle Anwar, Cliff Robertson, Dylan Kussman, Michael Schoeffling, Kathleen York, Frank Renzulli

Director

Steve Miner

Music

Mason Daring

Producer

Silver Screen Partners IV, Walt Disney Studios