Our Wild Hearts

Who in the world breaks a horse by tying up its front legs and leaving it lay on the ground like that overnight?!? I have never known of anyone doing that in the real world. When the girl is riding the wild horse, the father comes up and makes big motions and yells. Anyone who knows anything about horses knows that's the #1 way to spook a horse. This girl shows up and says she is his daughter. He just takes it as the truth and doesn't check it out? Read the Goofs section for more.

Extremely unrealistic.

This is a wonderful family movie that I stumbled on to. It was uplifting and inspiring. I am not going to waste time telling you what it is about. Others have done a good job of that. Just about anything Hallmark meets my approval. Some might say the movie is kind of cheesy. That doesn't matter in the least, because I like the movie well enough, to buy a DVD.

Our Wild Hearts has producer director Rick Schroder all of a sudden has a 15 year old daughter he never knew about drop in for a visit. The daughter is played by Rick's real life daughter Cambria Schroder. She's just found out about her dad from her single mom who never discussed him. She's from Malibu and she's used to the beach lifestyle. Now she's heading for the Sierra Nevadas and the rancher father she's just found out about.

Rick's fallen on bad times. He had a dude ranch back in the day, but now he captures and breaks wild mustangs for riding horses. There's a stallion leader that he and rival rancher Martin Kove want.

Someone must have been inspired by the old television series Fury. Young Cambria is the one who tames him, but the stallion is a one woman horse just the way Fury was with Joey.

There are some nice performances here. Rick Schroder even got a couple of his sons in playing sons of Kove. Kove is a real bad dude, you might remember him best for being the sensei of that bad dojo in Karate Kid. He's just as bad here.

Our Wild Hearts is a nice family film from the family Schroder.

I would have rated it 6 stars other than the Music was just too loud, often making dialogue illegible. A good movie otherwise for families to watch together.

The film was marred by all the protagonists wearing make-up, whether day or night. Is it really credible that our heroine would have had the time, let alone the inclination, to worry about her appearance? All she's interested in is saving that horse. Why would her father wear eye-shadow? Only if this was a comedy like 'Blazing Saddles'. I would have given this film 5 stars if it had not been demeaned by this idiotic error. Being a lover of horses I was enthralled by this film from start to finish. The filming itself was remarkable, from the air, from the ground, from close-ups to dramatic scenes of horses in huge groups, galloping in harmony and grace. I wasn't too keen on her young admirer, he seemed a bit too weak in contrast to her. If I'd know how good this film would be I'd have recorded it. Let's hope for a repeat.