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Amputee Major 
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TITLE |
Horse Whisperer, The (1998) |
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DISABILITY |
Amputee
Mental trauma |
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NOTES |
Though I've
yet to see this film I've included it in the |
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Recommended
list. All the reviews I've read have rated it |
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highly and
said that the subject is treated sensitively. |
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Grace and
her friend are hit head-on by a Mack truck which |
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"jack-knife'd"
on an icy
road trying not to hit them. This leads to the death of one girl and
her horse and severe injury to a second girl and her horse. |
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The
survivor, Grace, has lost the lower half of one leg and she |
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is severely
traumatized by seeing her best friend killed. Her |
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horse is
also traumatized. |
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Her parents
have difficulty coping with her condition and her |
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mother
decides to travel to Montana to see a 'horse |
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whisperer'
hoping he can help the horse and through that her |
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The romance
between the 'horse whisperer' and the mother |
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plays second
fiddle to the revivification of Grace. |
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From the
novel by Nicholas Evans |
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