Hope Ranch

Both the character and the actress who plays the mother drags the movie down. The character of the mother is not only weak but doesn't promote female strength. She is left with a ranch after her husband dies but never thought they would eventually run out of money. It begs the question why she didn't get a job to try to support her Daughter and ranch. The actress brings no personality to the role, just a dumb look all the time. The daughter and pastor actors and John Schneider are the only things giving the movie a 4 from me.

This show was overall really bad. being a horse crazy person there were a lot of problems that the actress who owned the horse did. she obviously had no experience with horses. it looked like she didnt even know how to ride correctly. she also called her horse "white" if im not mistaken. that's not that big of a deal but if you have a horse you should be able to know what color she is. and since I am an equestrian and stuff this kinda gets on my nerves. if they are going to make a movie that is mainly about a girl and her bond between her horse than they should at least know some simple stuff about horses, or else they might as well not have one in their movie. there were a lot of other mistakes that they made but the biggest one was that the girl was walking her horse on a halter (with the lead rope) and then she kept on dropping it on the ground to talk to her bf or guy friend or whatever. This is very dangerous. the horse in this movie was probably very well trained but if a kid goes and does this with their horse thinking it's okay, it's most likely that the horse will run or walk off and then trip and fall over the lead rope. sometimes depending on the fall, the horse could die from tripping and hurting it's leg . I also found the movie unrealistic. the only reason i gave this movie a 2 star is because the horse is really pretty.

Starting with the unlikely situation that John Schneider would be called back into duty at his age (seriously, how desperate is the military? He's 60 for Pete's sake) and there's an 18 year age difference between him and his wife's character. The dialogue is bad, the actors aren't great and the movie is really stilted and predictable. I would like to point out that one reviewer was really upset about the white horse being called white and the lead rope being dropped... White horses are called white and a well trained horse will stamd still when a lead rope is dropped, also no horse in the history of ever have tripped over their lead rope and broken a leg.

Why not cast age appropriate actors? Disappointed that a Christian movie casts a man 18 years older than the "wife". Ageism. Alive and thriving even in faith based movies.

One star because I can't give it zero stars. It truly is one of the worst things my eyes and ears have had to witness and is just garbage.

The story is awful. The acting is atrocious.