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The Horse whisperer review

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Kristin Scott Thomas plays Annie, a businesswoman, who is the textbook version of a control freak, she has a lawyer husband (Sam Neill), that she does not particularly care for, a daughter (Scarlett Johanssen) that she tries loosely to sculpt into a respectable woman like herself. Immediately after seeing her interact with her employes, with her husband, and daughter, you can feel the hatred for this Annie - she is using everybody, she is not happy, and she is constantly putting everybody into stress. She is actually a bully - using all possible tricks in the book, to get what she wants, but she does not even know what it is. Her daughter Grace is riding horse, his name is Pilgrim and she goes early in the morning to meet her friend Judith, they talk like teenagers about boys,  and parties, and then there is this accident, a terrible accident - that is the turning point in this story - as this will set the courses for redemption. Pilgrim is terribly injured, her daughter is ampu