A young woman pins her hopes and dreams on a maverick horse in this drama based on the classic novel by Mary O'Hara. Katy (Alison Lohman) is the teenage daughter of a horse rancher (Tim McGraw) who is grooming his son to take over the family business, while Katy is sent to an exclusive private school where she feels like a misfit. One day, while out riding, Katy finds a wild horse, a beautiful black mustang, and she feels an emotional connection with the animal. While her father is convinced having a mustang around his herd will be bad for both his thoroughbred ponies and the wild horse, Katy is certain she can break the strong-willed steed and make him a champion, and she even gives the horse a name -- Flicka. As Katy struggles to tame the headstrong Flicka, she also tries to prove to her father that she knows horses as well as he does, and that she's every bit as capable of running the ranch as her brother. Also starring Maria Bello and Ryan Kwantan, Flicka was previously adapted for the screen as My Friend Flicka in 1943. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
It's not finishing school or a traditional upbringing that causes ten-year-old Opal to learn about the world outside of her own backyard, but rather a particularly awkward-looking mutt named Winn-Dixie. Based on a novel by Kate DiCamillo, Winn-Dixie and Opal not only become privy to the eventful, if eccentric, lives of their neighbors (including a librarian who fought off a bear with nothing but a novel, a blind woman who claims to "see" with her heart, and a sensitive ex-con turned pet store clerk), but Opal herself manages to reconcile some of the depression left over after her mother had abandoned the family seven years earlier. Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide
- Genre: Kids and Family
- Category Animal Picture, Childhood Drama, Family Drama
- Theme: Journey of Self-Discovery, Man's Best Friend, Fathers and Daughters, Horses, Mischievous Children, Coming Home
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Run Time: 03 hr 21 min
- Language: English, Spanish, French
- Subtitle Language: English, Spanish
- Lead Actor: Alison Lohman, Jeff Daniels, Tim McGraw, AnnaSophia Robb, Cicely Tyson
- Supporting Actor: Buck Taylor, Marca Price, Nick Searcy, Dey Young, B.J. Hopper, Nick Price, Jeffrey Nordling, Luke Benward, Elle Fanning, Daniel Pino, Courtney Jines, Kaylee DeFer, Dallas Roberts, Ryan Kwanten, Eva Marie Saint, Maria Bello, Harland Williams, Lenore Banks, Lara Grice, Charles A. Daigle, Enid Trotiner, Julia LaShae, William Pitts, Guy G. Gauthreaux, Darrell Jupiter, Becca Lish, John "Spud" McConnell, Clarice H. Gauthreaux, Wade Williams, David Burton, John O'Brien, Armie Hammer Jr., Elizabeth Emery, Bob Tallman, Angelines Santana, Emma Ritchie, Gene McLaughlin, Dave Matthews
- Director: Michael Mayer, Wayne Wang
