Le ranch des coeurs sauvages

Our Wild Hearts is a Schroeder family affair. Ricky directs it and also co-wrote it with his wife.

His kids have various roles. His daughter Cambie plays a privileged Malibu teen who travels to the Sierra Nevada Mountains to meet up with her long lost father and bonds with a spirited wild mustang.

Her father Jack an honest to goodness rancher is intent on catching the horse in order to sell him. The daughter wants to let him run free. His neighbouring greedy rancher try every means fair or foul to capture the mustang.

Apparently this was one of the highest rated Hallmark films when it premiered which is a bit like being the tallest dwarf in a midget competition.

Some of the ethics displayed in the film is appalling. Never Mind the question of capturing the wild horse, Martin Kove who plays the greedy rancher and his kids should had been arrested for all the laws they break. It seems Kove must have been a black ops specialist in a former life who has been granted Presidential immunity because the Sheriff should had ran him and his no good family out of town.

Ricky gets as mileage as he can as the put upon but honest to goodness rancher trying to get through hard times and pressure put on by Kove.

The film is also low budget which you can tell as it was a cloudy day when they filmed at the beach. Just a shame the cast were required to sunbathe in a clearly overcast day.

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.

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.

So the girl from Malibu is able to get on a wild horse bareback - with no problem ... but the seasoned cowboy can't get on him without being bucked off? The girl from Malibu successfully saddles the wild horse and rides him into the wild? The girl from Malibu is on the horse and the "bad guy" shoots at them - and the wild horse just stands there - and doesn't get spooked? The girl from Malibu gets shot at while sitting on a saddle on a wild horse - and says "what's that?" They're bullets. The girl's mom - also from Malibu - hears the gunshots and says "are those gunshots?" PLEASE! WHO WRITES THIS STUFF? A ridiculous movie - no wonder Hallmark dumped it to IMDB TV.

A really enjoyable Family movie. The 2nd highest rated Hallmark movie channel movie ever. Cambrie Schroder breakout debut role. She delivers a solid performance and carries the film with her wonderful charisma. Thefilm was written and Directed by her Father Ricky who plays Jack Thomas, a cowboy on the edge of losing his ranch. Nice supporting roles are played by Angela Linvall, Eloise De Joria, Martin Kove, Cliff Pots and Chris Massagolia. The cinematography was beautiful, as is all the work of Steve Gainer, who also had a producing credit on the film. Andrea Schroder co-write and Executive Produced. A sequel is already in the development process based on the huge success of the original title "Our Wild Hearts.