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Looking for a great movie to check out this summer? Good news! Theaters are starting to reopen more and more and as such new movies are finally making their way to the theater. Among them is one my daughter couldn't wait to see: Spirit Untamed. Take a look:
An epic adventure about a headstrong girl longing for a place to belong who discovers a kindred spirit when her life intersects with a wild horse, Spirit Untamed is the next chapter in the beloved story from DreamWorks Animation.
Lucky Prescott (Isabela Merced, Dora and the Lost City of Gold) never really knew her late mother, Milagro Navarro (Eiza González, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw), a fearless horse-riding stunt performer from Miradero, a small town on the edge of the wide-open frontier.
Like her mother, Lucky isn’t exactly a fan of rules and restrictions, which has caused her Aunt Cora (Academy Award® winner Julianne Moore) no small amount of worry. Lucky has grown up in an East Coast city under Cora’s watchful eye, but when Lucky presses her own luck with one too many risky escapades, Cora picks up stakes and moves them both back with Lucky’s father, Jim (Oscar® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal), in Miradero.
Lucky is decidedly unimpressed with the sleepy little town. She has a change of heart when she meets Spirit, a wild Mustang who shares her independent streak, and befriends two local horseback riders, Abigail Stone (Mckenna Grace, Captain Marvel) and Pru Granger (Marsai Martin, Little). Pru’s father, stable owner Al Granger (Emmy winner Andre Braugher, Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine), is the best friend of Lucky’s father.
When a heartless horse wrangler (Emmy nominee Walton Goggins, FX’s Justified) and his team plan to capture Spirit and his herd and auction them off to a life of captivity and hard labor, Lucky enlists her new friends and bravely embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to rescue the horse who has given her freedom and a sense of purpose, and has helped Lucky discover a connection to her mother’s legacy and to her Mexican heritage that she never expected.
Spirit Untamed is the next chapter in DreamWorks Animation’s beloved franchise that began with the 2002 Oscar-nominated film Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron and includes an Emmy-winning TV series. The film is directed by Elaine Bogan (Netflix and DreamWorks Animation Television’s Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia) and is produced by Karen Foster (co-producer, How to Train Your Dragon). The film’s co-director is Ennio Torresan (head of story, The Boss Baby), and the film’s score is by composer Amie Doherty (Amazon’s Undone, DreamWorks Animation’s Marooned).
Looks great, doesn't it? My daughter is going through a bit of a horse phase--- a phase that has actually lasted for several years now and has only gotten stronger. As a matter of fact, the thing she's looking forward to most this summer is going to horse camp in a few short weeks where she'll get to ride a horse for the very first time.
Needless to say, when she learned there was going to be a new Spirit movie, she was beyond thrilled. We were excited to be given the opportunity to check out an advance screener of the film before it released in the theaters. The verdict? She absolutely LOVED it. It was a fantastic story with fantastic animation and she simply could not get enough. She wants to watch it again and again. I found it to be a fun movie too, and loved seeing how excited it made her!
If you have a horse loving kid, or are just looking for a fantastic family friendly film to see in the theaters, you do not want to miss this one.
Spirit Untamed is in theaters TODAY, June 4! Check your local theater for showtimes and tickets!
Keep the fun going even longer with this fantastic activity kit--- packed full of horse facts and fun! (Click here to download.)
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