A pretty standard feel-good piece that was pretty hard to connect with become it was so predictable and full of old tropes.
If you piece together any "village unites against {X}" movie you've ever seen (Pride, Calendar Girls, The Full Monty) with any horse movie you've ever seen (sea biscuit, secretariat, black pride, etc), you get the idea.
Expect the same old working-class/upper-class stereotypes, the same horse injuries and recoveries, the same small-village characters.
On the plus side, the actors I thought did a great job, particularly Toni Collette and Damien Lewis in the lead pulling off, to my (untrained) ears, very decent Welsh accents (there is a question why they couldn't find Welsh leads, but anyway)
If you piece together any "village unites against {X}" movie you've ever seen (Pride, Calendar Girls, The Full Monty) with any horse movie you've ever seen (sea biscuit, secretariat, black pride, etc), you get the idea.
Expect the same old working-class/upper-class stereotypes, the same horse injuries and recoveries, the same small-village characters.
On the plus side, the actors I thought did a great job, particularly Toni Collette and Damien Lewis in the lead pulling off, to my (untrained) ears, very decent Welsh accents (there is a question why they couldn't find Welsh leads, but anyway)