Throughout his work Redford has addressed the American experience and the connection between an individual and his environment. Annie hauls Grace and Pilgrim to the Booker ranch in Montana, where the miracle worker applies his gentle healing to horse and girl, inevitably touching mother's heart and soul as well over the difficult weeks that he works his magic. Believing the despairing girl's recovery is dependent on that of her injured horse, Pilgrim, Annie's researches into equine lore of whisperers (men with the gift of curing tomented horses) lead her to living legend, horseman Tom Booker (Redford). Tough chic New York magazine editor Annie (Scott-Thomas) and her low-key husband (Neill) are at their wits ends when their 14-year-old daughter Grace (Johansson) is disabled in an horrific riding accident. And by going for different emphases to those on the page, Redford has created a very sweet, very attractive, very sincere romantic yarn that is very much his own. Since Robert Redford acquired the film rights to Nicholas Evans' tearjerker novel even before the book was finished, the screen adaptation has led a separate life. This is a nearly perfect picture - for your mum or gran.
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