Sylvester
by Tim Hunter
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Actor: Constance Towers, Melissa Gilbert, Michael Schoeffling, Peter Kowanko, Richard FarnsworthDirector: Tim Hunter
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Hiro Narita
Editor: David Garfield
Editor: Howard E. Smith
Editor: Suzanne Pettit
Producer: Martin Jurow
Writer: Carol Sobieski
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-06
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Sylvester
Movie Review: Improbable But Wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
What an astonishing movie this was and I am glad I taped it off the television. To get it on DVD will be much better, though. I have enjoyed Richard Farnsworth in a Kenny Rogers movie called Wild Horses, and in The Straight Story. He was also on an episode of Highway to Heaven. I watched Charlie take care of her younger brothers, fighting with CPS to keep her family together, then fighting with Mr. Foster to let her and her brothers move in with him. Watching her ride Sylvester topped everything, though, especially that sailing jump over the pickup that encouraged her to train him for, of all things, a championship three-day event. As improbable as it is for a first-timer to win, this is a movie, not a documentary. I enjoyed watching the man lead the contestants over the cross-country course so they would know what they were facing. Another moment earlier on I look forward to is watching Charlie try on the jodphurs and being told she had better wear white undies. So much she had to learn, such as how to salute to begin her dressage routine, and that it was an event, not a horse show. A terrific movie showing the viewers that, with support and encouragement, and your own determination, you just might end up a winner.
Summary of Sylvester
SYLVESTER - DVD MovieCinderella is a cowgirl in Sylvester, a hard-luck story with a happy ending if there ever was one. Melissa Gilbert is the tough-talking teenage orphan cowpoke whose natural talent and determination transform her into a prize-winning equestrian. Soapy subplots abound: She has a drunken reluctant mentor (Richard Farnsworth, in a fine turn), fights the court to raise her two younger brothers in a rundown trailer, and protests too much against a would-be sweetheart (Michael Schoeffling, the resident hunk of Sixteen Candles). Yet there is poetry in the scenes of Gilbert riding Sylvester through the hills and magical footage of Farnsworth secretly training the horse by moonlight. Even the trite dialogue ("Did you kill their dreams like you're killing mine?") fails to do in the modern fairy tale. It's a pretty darn imperfect world Gilbert and friends inhabit, which in its own plodding way makes it seem like real life, despite the unlikely journey from jeans to jodhpurs. --Valerie J. Nelson
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