HOT TO TROT

Published date27 November 2020
Date27 November 2020
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
ORPHANED teenager Jo Green (Mackenzie Foy) is sent to live with her estranged uncle, John Manly (Game of Thrones' Iain Glen), a horse whisperer who rehabilitates wild mustangs at Birtwick Stables in New York.

Initially, the relationship is strained and John struggles to connect with his niece on the same deep level as his beloved animals.

"I'm better with horses than I am with people," he confides to co-worker Henry Gordon (Matt Rippy).

Jo is drawn to one seemingly untameable, black stallion, which she christens Beauty (voiced by Kate Winslet).

A touching friendship blossoms "like flowers do in spring" but fate contrives to drive a wedge between Jo and Beauty.

The horse is leased to well-to-do society wife Mrs Winthorp (Claire Forlani), who insists that Jo keeps an "appropriate distance" from the stallion and her strapping son George (Calam Lynch).

Adapted by writer-director Ashley Avis from Anna Sewell's cherished 19th-century novel, Black Beauty is a well-groomed drama, which transplants the heart-tugging action from...

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