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Amblin Entertainment
DreamWorks Pictures
Reliance Entertainment
The Kennedy/Marshall Company
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Separated by war. Tested by battle. Bound by friendship.
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
CinemaSerf
Nov 17, 2024 · via TMDB
This film - and indeed the whole "War Horse" story - is a sentimentally charged fountain of serendipitous events that require you to suspend any sense of realism and just let your senses find their own way through the next 2½ hours. We start with an auction where a young colt is bought by a poverty-stricken farmer (Peter Mullen). Now he was supposed to buy a working horse to help plough their inhospitable and rocky farm. Instead, he substantially overpays for a thoroughbred ("Joey") - an independently minded, athlete of an horse that has never been ridden, let alone dragged a plough around for a living! The son of the household, "Albert" (Jeremy Irvine) determines to try and befriend the horse and so creates an enduring bond. That, despite a separation forced on them by the atrocities of the Great War that sees "Joey" sold to Tom Hiddleston before being captured by the Bosche, befriended by a young girl and her grandfather and finally extricated from the carnage of no-man's land by a rare and poignant bit of Christmas Day-style co-operation. Of course, the story is far fetched but it is none the less effective for that. The story of the horse has a continuing thread all of it's own, but then so do each of the people whose life he touches. The ghastliness of war is writ large, as is the prevailing determination of Steven Spielberg to somehow humanise the inhumane - by using an equine actor. It's effective too, for the most part. Irvine is good looking, charming and well cast, as is Toby Kebbell who appears towards the end. The production is of the highest standard, the photography and effects impressive, and the dlalogue refreshingly allows the visuals to do most of the work - a clever and potent abridgement of Peter Morpurgo's original. There really is nothing not to like with this. It is splendid big screen cinema at it's best and well worth a cinema outing if you get a chance.
shinemon
Jul 19, 2023 · via TMDB
Length is more, that can be reduced. But it is a Humbly simple feel good film. Spielberg Touch Is There. Story has good pace and flow of Journey. At last,we will wait anticipatedly for their joining.
Gimly
Feb 6, 2017 · via TMDB
I absolutely understand why _War Horse_ got the highbrow attention that it did, but I did not find it satisfying on a personal level. Final rating:★★ - Definitely not for me, but I sort of get the appeal.
Andres Gomez
Mar 14, 2013 · via TMDB
A too long story of a horse in times of WW I and its relationship with a young brit and some other characters in the way. Too childish but another family movie from Spielberg in the tradition of E.T. and the like.
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Jeremy Irvine
Albert Narracott
Peter Mullan
Ted Narracott
Emily Watson
Rose Narracott
Niels Arestrup
Grandfather
David Thewlis
Lyons
Tom Hiddleston
Capt. James Nicholls
Benedict Cumberbatch
Maj. Jamie Stewart
Céline Buckens
Emilie
Toby Kebbell
Geordie Soldier
Patrick Kennedy
Lt. Charlie Waverly
Leonard Carow
Michael
David Kross
Gunther
Matt Milne
Andrew Easton
Robert Emms
David Lyons
Eddie Marsan
Sgt. Fry
Nicolas Bro
Friedrich
Rainer Bock
Brandt
Hinnerk Schönemann
Soldier
Gary Lydon
Si Easton
Geoff Bell
Sgt. Sam Perkins
Liam Cunningham
Army Doctor
Sebastian Hülk
German Officer at Farm
Gerard McSorley
Market Auctioneer
Tony Pitts
Sgt. Martin
Pip Torrens
Maj. Tompkins
Philippe Nahon
French Auctioneer
Jean-Claude Lecas
Butcher
Seamus O'Neill
Devon Farmer #1
Pat Laffan
Devon Farmer #2
Trystan Pütter
German Trench Soldier #1
Gunnar Cauthery
German Trench Soldier #2
Julian Wadham
Trench Captain
Anian Zollner
Senior German Officer
Michael Kranz
Junior German Officer
Hannes Wegener
German Officer
David Dencik
Base Camp Officer
Edward Bennett
Cavalry Recruiting Officer
Johnny Harris
Infantry Recruitment Officer
Philip Hill-Pearson
Wounded Soldier
Tam Dean Burn
Medic in Trench
Thomas Arnold
Shouting German Officer
Maximilian Brückner
German Artillery Officer
Markus Tomczyk
German Artillery Soldier
Peter Benedict
German Officer on Bridge
Roy Holder
Fred Goddard
Maggie Ollerenshaw
Narracott's Neighbor
Martin Dew
Lyons' Cronie
Michael Morpurgo
Auction guest (uncredited)
Finder's Key
Joey
Rick Carter
Production Design
Neil Lamont
Supervising Art Director
George Richmond
Camera Operator
Janusz Kamiński
Director of Photography
George Richmond
Steadicam Operator
David Appleby
Still Photographer
Holly Waddington
Assistant Costume Designer
Joanna Johnston
Costume Design
David Crossman
Costume Supervisor
Lois Burwell
Makeup Designer
Nadia Stacey
Other
Rob Inch
Stunt Coordinator
Cristian Knight
Stunts
Jonathan Cohen
Stunts
Levan Doran
Stunts
Steven Spielberg
Director
Adam Somner
First Assistant Director
Yvan Lucas
Digital Intermediate Colorist
Michael Kahn
Editor
Constantine Gregory
ADR Voice Casting
Antoinette Boulat
Casting
Jina Jay
Casting
Simone Bär
Casting
Adam Somner
Co-Producer
Kathleen Kennedy
Producer
Steven Spielberg
Producer
Nia Hansen
Apprentice Sound Editor
Colette D. Dahanne
Foley Editor
John Williams
Original Music Composer
Gary Rydstrom
Sound Designer
Andy Nelson
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Gary Rydstrom
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Tom Johnson
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Gary Rydstrom
Supervising Sound Editor
Richard Hymns
Supervising Sound Editor
Neil Corbould
Special Effects Supervisor
Ben Morris
Visual Effects Supervisor
Michael Morpurgo
Novel
Lee Hall
Screenplay
Richard Curtis
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