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      Dark Horse

      PG 1992 1h 38m Drama List
      Reviews 67% 100+ Ratings Audience Score An architect (Ed Begley Jr.) reaches out to his wild teenage daughter (Ari Meyers), put to work at a ranch for disabled children. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Dark Horse (David Hemmings, 1992) Poor David Hemmings and Tab Hunter. It seemed that at one point, both of these previously-formidable actors were in desperate need of money, which led to them collaborating on this mess of a movie (Hunter wrote the script). I can't be certain this was a Lifetime Original Movie-if so, it was one of the very first-but if it wasn't, this has to be one of the movies from which Lifetime grabbed their formula. The movie starts off promisingly enough. Dad (St. Elsewhere's Ed Begley Jr.) and daughter Allison (Dutch's Ari Meyers) move from Los Angeles to the middle of nowhere. Allison hates it, falls in with the wrong crowd, and ends up getting arrested and having to do community service at a horse farm for the underprivileged run by Susan Hadley (Ginger Snaps' Mimi Rogers). Of course, dad and Susan are attracted to one another, and Allison bonds with Jet, a racehorse who won't let anyone else ride him. But oh, it doesn't stop there. You can't just leave it at that, you have to throw all sorts of other stupidities in the way, but then we'd be getting into spoiler territory. It just gets dumber, dumber, dumber, with no hope whatever of redemption. You know it's going to keep getting dumber; the only question is how far Hunter is willing to go to try and pull the viewer's strings. All the way, it turns out; I can't imagine the stupid getting worse than this. * Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Love finding childhood movies, haven't seen this in almost ten years:). Dunno where my VHS copy is :( Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Teenage girl adjusts to new town while serving community service at a horse ranch. I would have preferred more time spent on good girl rebellion with the high school bad boy as second half becomes heavy handed. Plays like an after-school special. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Barbara Shulgasser Common Sense Media '90s drama about overcoming challenges has some violence. Rated: 3/5 Mar 8, 2016 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Aug 6, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis An architect (Ed Begley Jr.) reaches out to his wild teenage daughter (Ari Meyers), put to work at a ranch for disabled children.
      Director
      David Hemmings
      Producer
      Larry Sugar, Peter McIntosh, Richard N. Gladstein
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Sep 1, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 38m
      Sound Mix
      Stereo