A SUNDAY HORSE There’s an exciting new horse movie scheduled for release in early 2016 called A SUNDAY HORSE, the first Americanbased movie set in the heartpounding world of Grand Prix show jumping since Disney’s 1968 “The Horse In the Grey Flannel Suit” starring young Kurt Russell. A SUNDAY HORSE is the story of a driven, talented rider from humble beginnings who defies all the odds - first, by becoming a top competitor in a field dominated by wealthy horseowners, and then coming back from a near-fatal riding accident to become the US champion jumper on a horse deemed too small and untalented for serious competition.
��������������������������� The film stars Nikki Reed (“Twilight”), Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible), Ryan Merriman (Final Destination), and screen legends William Shatner (Star Trek) and Linda Hamilton (Terminator). It’s directed by Vic Armstrong, legendary stunt coordinator and director (Indiana Jones, Terminator 2, Mission Impossible 3, six Bond movies) and lifelong horseman, whose father was coach of Great Britain’s National team for 5 Olympic games. The film will have its World Premiere at the Equus Film Festival in New York (Nov. 19-21).
So she trades farm chores for training help, gets backing from an African American entrepreneur who’d also come from nothing and went on to become EntreprenInspired by the true-life experiences of Ocala, Florida rider/jumper/ eur of the Year, and trainer Debi Connor, the word coming out of early screenings of scrapes together the film is that it might be the best, most authentic movie ever enough money to made about the Grand Prix show jumping world. buy a couple of inexpensive horses Though the events from Connor’s life that inspired the movie took with no formal ���������������������������������������� place primarily in the 1980’s, the movie is set in the present. The jumping skills. film’s heroine Debi Walden (Nikki Reed) is caught between a rock None of them – not her, not her backer, not her horses – has the pedigree and a hard place. She’s got the talent and passion for jumping, to win in this sport of elites. It just doesn’t happen that way. Ever. and dreams of becoming an Olympic champion. But she doesn’t have the money to train and compete, much less to buy the number of expensive horses needed to have a shot on the champion- But somehow this team of outsiders starts making a name for themselves. Debi and the two horses she saved – Touch of Class and The Evangelist – ship circuit.
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