Appaloosa (film)
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"Hidalgo" is the kind of movie Hollywood has almost become too jaundiced to make anymore. Bold, exuberant and swashbuckling, it has the purity and simplicity of something Douglas Fairbanks or Errol Flynn might have bounded through.
46% Tomatometer 165 Reviews 64% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings Rugged cowboy Frank Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen) is an expert horseman who performs in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. When affluent ...
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- Adventure, Action, Drama
- PG-13
Formulaic, overly simple, too violent for tweens. Read Common Sense Media's Hidalgo review, age rating, and parents guide.
Mar 5, 2004 · Hidalgo: Directed by Joe Johnston. With Viggo Mortensen, Zuleikha Robinson, Omar Sharif, Louise Lombard. In 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race.
In the legendary 3,000-mile Ocean of Fire race across the sands of the Arabian desert, Hopkins and his horse must face treachery and the cruel desert elements in an endurance race that pushes man and beast to their limits. If you like horses, adventure, and epic films, this is a movie for you.
Mar 5, 2004 · Based on the story of long distance rider Frank T. Hopkins, Hidalgo is an epic action-adventure and one man's journey of personal redemption. (Touchstone Pictures)
Movie Review. Hidalgo is an 1890s adventure yarn based loosely on the life of long-distance horse racer Frank T. Hopkins and his faithful companion, a sorrel-and-white Spanish mustang who looks like he just galloped off a Bev Doolittle painting.
