Follow on from "Fluffiness" thread - what horsey films/books make ...

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There was a film - maybe TV film? About a boy who doesn't speak and there is a bit where his pony is caught in a bog and he sits there in the rain with it's head in his lap. When it's rescued you see him looking out a window as the pony is led past and he says, 'My horse' I bawled..

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Oo - that sounds familiar - did it have Mark Lester in it?

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Run Wild, Run Free - my friend and i both bawled our eyes out in the cinema when we went to see that!

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That's it!!!
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What a tear jerker that one is

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And the pony was called Philip ! think I was a bit obesessed with that film.
As to others , well most of them really, Into the West, Black beauty, etc etc. And other animal films too, including the Lion King and of course Bambi, maybe I don't have a zero fluffy rating after all.
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There's a lovely book called 'in the presence of horses'. Don't remember who wrote it, and it's not strictly horses, but it's about a woman who works with horses and she gets a job in a private yard, but it's close to where she was brought up, which brings back all her demons. Throughout the story you unfold the details of her past and why she does what she does. At the same time she gets very attached to a young horse. Gets me every time (and I've read it a lot - my fave book)
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I've got that book, it is a good read, its by Barbara Dimmick
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all films with horses make me shed a tear, but an unknown sticks in my mind from when I was at school, not feeling very well, at home on the sofa watching a Sunday afternoon classic sort of film, I am sure it was called Pony Express or something, about a pony express rider (obviously) who has a super fast coloured pony called Domino, who gets shot by the Indians with an arrow, but keeps running, ah, so sad! But makes me want to have a coloured horse and call it Domino!
 
Think you might be thinking of the Belstone Fox......set on Exmoor (I think) and is about a huntsman who takes a fox cub home with him, then when it grows up, sets it free.

All sorts of nastys happen from then on as the fox ends up as his bete noir...... I seem to remember a scene with the fox leading the hounds over a train line with disasterous consequences......if you want to be really screwed up, then watch that one!!

Non horsy (and by default very fluffy bunny) but I can't watch Watership Down
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Run Wild, Run Free - my friend and i both bawled our eyes out in the cinema when we went to see that!

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Oh God I remember that film, I was about 8 when I first watched it, I remember having a neighbours child on my lap who I was trying to hide behind as I was sobbing and my mum coming to sit next me telling me that it was just a film and the horse wasn't really hurting - awww
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Black Beauty
Seabiscuit
The Champ
Dreamer
National Velvet
International Velvet
Bambi (I don't believe anyone who says that didn't cry at that)
The Lion King

And non horsey but this film made me cry for about 3 days - The Green Mile.

I am sooooooo fluffy - and proud of it
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Black Beauty is my all-time favorite book and it was the only book I wanted my mum to read to me when I was little (abridged version). Every time she finished she had to start it again. The Sean Bean narrated film version just has me sobbing from beginning to end especially when they have to leave Birtwick Park and are separetd from Merrylegs and of course the death of Ginger (I'm starting to sniff already!).

Does anyone remember a film about pit ponies about to retire that were taken back down the mine due to an explosion to rescue some miners and then in the joy of rescue one is let go and insteadof leaving the mine goes back to its old stable in the mine as a matter of habit and then......
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Do people make these films to deliberately torture childeren?
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What's the one about the poor boy who has a pony that he breaks in and loves and then it runs off and is re captured and ends up being called Beau and belonging to a little rich girl who can't walk who loves it too and in the end they make the pony decide who it wants to be with by calling it from eithr end of a show ground????

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OMG, I remember that - what is it?!


The bit in The Black Stallion where there's no dialogue, just the boy and the horse on the beach, and he rides it bareback, just makes me weep, it's so beautiful and fantastical
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Black Beauty; what a book.

The bit in Never Ending Story when Artax drowns in the mud has haunted me for years - but it's all ok in the end!

Phar Lap made me cry like a small child
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What's the one about the poor boy who has a pony that he breaks in and loves and then it runs off and is re captured and ends up being called Beau and belonging to a little rich girl who can't walk who loves it too and in the end they make the pony decide who it wants to be with by calling it from eithr end of a show ground????

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OMG, I remember that - what is it?!



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It's driving me mad! Pony was palomino I think and there was a big sub plot along the 'poor but honest family V rich and arrogant family' . I'm pretty sure the girl sees the pony first in the boy's field and asks her dad to go and buy it, but the grandad won't sell it.
 
there is a series called the saddle club by bonnie bryant-that i used to read when i was young and i do remeber crying when peepr was PTS - i was incosolable for at least a day - over a book!!!!!
 
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What's the one about the poor boy who has a pony that he breaks in and loves and then it runs off and is re captured and ends up being called Beau and belonging to a little rich girl who can't walk who loves it too and in the end they make the pony decide who it wants to be with by calling it from eithr end of a show ground????

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OMG, I remember that - what is it?!



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It's driving me mad! Pony was palomino I think and there was a big sub plot along the 'poor but honest family V rich and arrogant family' . I'm pretty sure the girl sees the pony first in the boy's field and asks her dad to go and buy it, but the grandad won't sell it.

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ChicoMio - I remember it really well too but I'm d----d if I can remember what it was! I really hope someone comes up with the name soon 'cos it's driving me mad
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I well up at the opening credits of Black Beauty! The saddest part for me though is the flashbacks of Beauty, Ginger and Merrylegs playing in the field *sob*. The Horse Whisperer (book) makes me bawl my eyes out, film not so much though.

Also, and not sure if I should admit to this, "Spirit, Stallion of the Cimmaron" made me cry too.
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I can watch supposedly heartbreaking films about humans without so much as a tear, but animal films do me in every time!
 
Champions had me going at the very beginning - when the horse is going along the horizon with that music would have been enough on its own, but knowing it is actually Aldaniti himself....
 
Books -
The Horse Dancer - Jojo Meyes
Chosen by a Horse - Susan Richards - quote from this book below, I was sobbing!
"I had lost love before, but even worse I had lost the memory of love, all traces that it had ever existed. I wondered what I had left of Lay Me Down's love. What did I have to show for it, to prove that it had ever existed? With her head still warm in my arms, she already felt so far away, so very gone from me"

Films-
Seabiscuit
Oddly - The Ring! when the horse went over into the water. Not long after my horse was PTS and I ran out the cinema
Eight Below - oh God, I watched this before a night shift in bed, and my pillow was sodden
 
Homeward Bound.

Just the last bit where the young dog and the cat speed over the meadow to their respective owners, and the kid who owns the old dog is sure his pal won't have made it.....and then the old Lab hobbles across the field, and the little boy is ecstatic.

Queue me blubbing and bawling !!!!
 
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Homeward Bound.

Just the last bit where the young dog and the cat speed over the meadow to their respective owners, and the kid who owns the old dog is sure his pal won't have made it.....and then the old Lab hobbles across the field, and the little boy is ecstatic.

Queue me blubbing and bawling !!!!

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Oh - that one really gets me! If we're straying into non-horsey book/film territory - has anyone read "Jenny" by Paul Gallico - highest Kleenex rating ever!!
 
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Homeward Bound.

Just the last bit where the young dog and the cat speed over the meadow to their respective owners, and the kid who owns the old dog is sure his pal won't have made it.....and then the old Lab hobbles across the field, and the little boy is ecstatic.

Queue me blubbing and bawling !!!!

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Oh - that one really gets me! If we're straying into non-horsey book/film territory - has anyone read "Jenny" by Paul Gallico - highest Kleenex rating ever!!

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Yes! I read it when I was about eleven and it really upset me - to make it worse my mum decided to call our first cat Jenny and I used to have nightmares about her falling off ships.
 


Yes! I read it when I was about eleven and it really upset me - to make it worse my mum decided to call our first cat Jenny and I used to have nightmares about her falling off ships.

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You're one of the few people I know who have read it! I can remember absolutely howling at that one. Can't believe your mother called your cat Jenny - I think that would have given me nightmares too!
 
never ending story where pony is taken buy quick sand, Black beauty cant watch it!

whats the one with unicorns where they cut its horn off?? its old old film fantasy one 2 white unicorns and 1 dies
 
Almost every horsey film makes me cry. One that springs to mind is Spirit, when they look up and all the clouds are horse-shaped. I didn't have a horse and wasn't riding when I saw that film and I just couldn't stop crying. It really made me realise that I had to have a horse (I was at the start of a PhD and was trying to postpone having a horse for a few years) A few months later I bought Rauti
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But in general I tend to get moved very easily
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The first time I saw Isabell and Satchmo's Kur (the Montserrat Caballé one) I was sobbing in front of the TV midway through
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