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Release Date: 06 May, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $10.99 You SAVE: $3.99! Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
The Electric Horseman Reviews
There Is Nothing "Electric" About This Movie!!!
In this movie we see Sonny Steele played by Rober Redford who used to be a Rodeo Hero but now is a washed up drunken walking advertisement for Ranch Breakfast Cereal . Sonny gets tired of the easy demands of his new job and steals the company's horse from a Las Vegas Casino.Perhaps he preferred his old job where some bucking bronco would break his ribs.I have heard that some guys are "into pain". Then Sonny is persued by Hallie Martin , played by Jane Fonda and the two of them have the usual, typical and obligatory Hollywood sexual encounter in the wilderness. The horse in this movie is quite exceptional as he manages to be a pacer, a trotter and even a steeplechaser !!!Sadly horses such as these do not exist in Real Life.I can't figure out why Hallie and Sonny are attracted to each other and if anybody can enlighten me kindly write to me via my Email address. I give this movie 5 stars because I like Willie Nelson who has a small but vital part in this very disppointing movie.
Very Excellent, Very Timeless, and VERY Fun
"The Electric Horseman" is Top-Drawer Redford. No one, anywhere, could have played Sonny Steele with even a tenth of the talent and showmanship and precision and exquisite timing as does Redford. Only Redford can portray a character as simultaneously offbeat, comical, confused, thoughtful, simple, complex and sad as Sonny Steele. No one but Redford's Sonny Steele could so accurately embody the honest pathos dwelling in Willie Nelson's "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys".
And beneath Redford's sterling performance is even more Fun. The fun-loving, free-wheeling style of the Independent Westerner juxtaposed against the rigidly organized Selfishness and Arrogance of Corproate America's "elite" is deliciously appropo. The consistant making of the sorry newspaper bimbo (Jane Fonda) look exactly like what she was, or had become, is priceless. The swing from a simple man of real heart and real honor "just trying to get back to himself" to a clever cowboy with easily enough nerve to ride someone's million-dollar horse down the Vegas strip and disappear right under their upturned noses is a delightfiul display of "real" winning over "fake" - the "Little Guy" deftly pulling the plug on America's Corporate People-shredder - a sight most of this country can thoroughly and wildly applaud. No, it couldn't really happen - but Redford makes it absolutely Grand Fun to pretend it could. And anyway... maybe ... just maybe, it could. We can always Hope!
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