Dreams Can Come True

So?ador is Spanish for “dreamer,” the title of a movie opening this month that sounds like a natural fit for horse lovers. According to information from DreamWorks, Dreamer’s writer/producer John Gatins grew up loving racehorses, and wondering

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Soñador is Spanish for “dreamer,” the title of a movie opening this month that sounds like a natural fit for horse lovers. According to information from DreamWorks, Dreamer’s writer/producer John Gatins grew up loving racehorses, and wondering why horses that broke their legs couldn’t be saved. Then came the moving, true-life story of Mariah’s Storm, a top-notch Thoroughbred filly who broke her leg, but through medical advances and care returned to be one of the best of her generation. Gatins wanted to bring that type of emotion to the big screen and weave it through the story of a trainer (Kurt Russell), his father (Kris Kristofferson), and his daughter (Dakota Fanning) trying to be a family, and a filly named Soñador. A press release quoted Russell as saying, “What I liked about the movie was that it is a deeply generational story. These people are Kentucky horse people; this is what they do, and there’s no getting around it. Working with horses has been handed down from the grandfather, Pop, to the father, Ben (Crane, the trainer), and now to his daughter, Cale. In this movie, Cale is trying to connect with her father and have a relationship, but it is not until the horse, Soñador, enters this family’s life that they begin healing the old relationships and starting new ones.”


Russell has owned horses throughout his life, so he could relate to his character on that level. However, according to the press release, he can see that Ben Crane is missing one important quality in his dealings with both Soñador and Cale. “In this movie, I think the part of the equation that Ben is missing is belief. He is very business-orientated with Sonya, whereas his daughter falls in love with her, and that love is felt by the horse. I have talked to a lot of trainers, and they all say it’s about the relationship. Some horses want to run for you, others never become interested. Some horses don’t know how to develop that relationship, and some trainers don’t know how to find it. There are a million variables, which make it fascinating.”


Veteran actor Luis Guzmán plays Balon, the groom and an able horseman in his own right. Guzmán noted, “I was thrilled when I got this script because it was a horse movie. I have horses–I’m a mucking specialist back home in Vermont–but I still learned a lot about horses and horse racing

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Kimberly S. Brown is the editor of EquiManagement/EquiManagement.com and the group publisher of the Equine Health Network at Equine Network LLC.

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