| ORIGINAL TITLE |
War Horse |
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| DIRECTOR |
Steven Spielberg |
| SCREENWRITER |
Lee Hall, Richard Curtis (Novel: Michael Morpurgo) |
| COMPOSER |
John Williams |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER |
Janusz Kaminski |
| CAST |
Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, Niels Arestrup, Tom Hiddleston, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Celine Buckens, Toby Kebbell, David Kross, Nicolas Bro, Leonhard Carow, Eddie Marsan, Patrick Kennedy, Liam Cunningham, Robert Emms, Matt Milne, Hinnerk Schönemann, Geoff Bell |
| STUDIO/PRODUCER |
Dreamworks Pictures / Reliance Entertainment / # Amblin Entertainment / The Kennedy/Marshall Company / Touchstone Pictures |
| OFFICIAL WEB |
http://www.warhorsemovie.com/ |
| AWARDS |
2011: Academy Awards: 6 nominations including Best Film & Best Cinematography
2011: Golden Globes: 2 nominations: Best Film (Drama) and Best Music Score
2011: Satellite Awards: Best Cinematography. 8 nominations, including Best Picture & Director
2011: NBR (National Board of Review): Top Ten Films of the Year
2011: Critics Choice Awards: Best Cinematography (ex-aequo). 7 nominations
2011: BAFTA Awards: 5 nominations, including Best OST
2011: American Film Institute (AFI): Top 10 - Movies of the Year |
| GENRE |
War. Drama | I World War. Animals. Horses. Ensemble Film. Epic |
| SYNOPSIS/PLOT |
Albert, the teenage son of a poor farmer, falls in love with a beautiful bay foal. When the horse, now nearly grown, is brought to auction, his father is the top bidder. Albert is thrilled and names the colt Joey, but his mother is dismayed—her husband's purchase leaves them without enough money to pay the rent. Albert trains Joey to be a plough horse so that he can earn his keep. But in 1914, when WWI begins, the army is looking for good horses and his father sells Joey without Albert's knowledge. Albert vows to find Joey one day and bring him home. Joey is bought by a kind officer, but as a war horse, he experiences the horror of battles in France. Though he endures many hardships, his courage touches the soldiers around him.
"War Horse" is based on Michael Morpurgo's novel of the same name, as well as a stage adaptation. Spielberg is producing with Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Revel Guest. Scribes Lee Hall and Richard Curtis are penning the adapted script.
Set against the sweeping backdrop of the Great War, storyline charts the extraordinary friendship between a boy and a horse who are separated but whose fates continue to intertwine over the course of WWI. |
| PRO REVIEWS |
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"An elegant, elemental, borderline corny boy-and-his horse story magnified in significance by its battleground backdrop, War Horse possesses a simplicity that is both its greatest strength and an ultimate liability" (Todd McCarthy: The Hollywood Reporter)
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"War Horse is an emotional ride - full gallop." (Peter Travers: Rolling Stone)
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"The project is tailor-made for Saving Private Ryan Spielberg, the war-story specialist, as well as for E.T. Spielberg, the chronicler of boyhood desires and yearnings for family" (Lisa Schwarzbaum: Entertainment Weekly)
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"Boldly emotional, nakedly heartfelt, War Horse will leave only the stoniest hearts untouched." (Richard Corliss: Time)
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"Spielberg ambitiously attemps to merge his talents as an entertainer of children and a chronicler of mass devastation in 'War Horse' (...) [the movie] falls short of the sustained narrative involvement" (Justin Chang: Variety)
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"Steven Spielberg (...) is history's finest maker of children's movies. His capacity to evoke simplicity, awe, beauty and unconditional love are his genius, and his vision of the children's story War Horse is a gorgeous, majestic fable (...) Rating: **** (out of four)" (Kyle Smith: New York Post)
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