The movie: Flicka

[amberskyfire]

Have you seen it? I checked it out from the library but I've been too busy to watch it. I'm wanting to watch it while my daughter is awake because I don't have time (I have to work) when she's asleep.

I checked the rating which is PG. Why is it PG? Anybody watched it? I don't care about my daughter seeing most things, but violence scares her and these horse movies usually involve some "bad guy" beating the bejeezus out of a horse. I don't want my LO seeing that.

Is the movie violence-free?

[ChaosNReality]

Toward the end of the move there is a scene where they have a "Wild Horse Race". People are in teams of two, and the team to get their horse saddled and across the finish line first wins.

None of the horses have ever really been touched before, let alone saddled. I don't remember any actual beating going on, but, the horses were understandably freaked out about the whole ordeal.

[elanorh]

Do you have the old one or the one with Tim McGraw?

IMO the Tim McGraw one was OK ... More or less. The violence in it was pretty much a mountain lion/horse scene - depending on how focused your dd is on that part of the movie (early in) then that could be something that might bother her. It bothered me, but mostly because I hadn't pre-viewed the movie myself, and the girl does *exactly* what you're not supposed to do when you are confronted by a mountain lion (turn around and run) --- we live in a mountainous area, mountain lions are occasionally seen even here in our large town, and I had already been teaching my then-three year old what to do if she sees a mountain lion (grab a stick, stand tall, don't run, yell for help, not necessarily in that order). So for the character in the movie, who ostensibly grew up in this same area (literally!), to not follow those guidelines with her encounter with the mountain lion, didn't make me happy.

You'd probably have to explain a few things in the movie, depending on how much you've been exposed to cowboy/ranch stuff (IIRC, the dad thinks he should kill the horse at one point because the horse is badly injured - you'd need to explain that potentially).