Flicka

If you wanted it to be exactly like the book you are going to be disappointed. However the movie was awesome and I loved every bit of it. It was well done and the acting was great. I re-read the... Read more at imdb.com

If you're a fan of the book 'My Friend Flicka' or the original 1943 movie of the same name, you are going to be severely disappointed with 'Flicka'.This isn't the story of a young boy daydreaming about owning his own... Read more at imdb.com

I just went and seen this Movie. I loved it, it's a beautiful story. The Location and Horses are BEAUTIFUL. Alison Lohman does a wonderful job as Katy. Her emotion at one point in the movie made me cry. Her... Read more at imdb.com

Mary O'Hara's novel "My Friend Flicka" is the basis for this wonderful family oriented movie. Directed by Michael Mayer, a man whose work we had admired before, offers a positive view of a Wyoming family that is struggling to make... Read more at imdb.com

Sometimes the chasm between film critic and audience is simply too big to cross. It's no one's fault, we just see more movies than the rest of you. So when a critic watches a movie like Flicka, he see in... Read more at imdb.com

This is an extremely conventional, exactly-what-you-would-expect family film, which paints by the numbers, but unfortunately can't count higher than about 5. There is one absolutely terrific "movie moment": when Flicka is being hauled off, with Katie running down a dirt... Read more at imdb.com

So many times when writers "update" a movie, they destroy it by changing the heartwarming plot into something colder and more distant. Flicka remains true to the book, even if they made Flicka's owner a girt instead of a boy.... Read more at imdb.com

At the age of 12, I read the first book of this trilogy of Mary O'Hara. I lent the books at the school-library, and somehow i still got them (17 years later). The books were old, had a wonderful smell,... Read more at imdb.com

Unfortunately, we did not read a review of Flicka before taking our three children. Our 13-year old son commented during the movie about the father/son shoving scene. Our 9-year old daughter told us how disappointed she was that the girl... Read more at imdb.com

I saw this film on July 7th, 2006 in Indianapolis. I am one of the judges for the Heartland Film Festival's Truly Moving Picture Award. A Truly Moving Picture "…explores the human journey by artistically expressing hope and respect for... Read more at imdb.com

One night as Katy gets carried away and decides to ride Flicka out of the corral, Flicka knocks her flat on her back. In the meantime he looks to Katys brother Howard ( Ryan Kwanten ) to help him with the ranch, oblivious to the fact that his son is struggling to tell him that he would much rather go to college than stay in Wyoming. ... Full Review

In this "Flicka," everything is a little too big, grandiose and commercially beautiful. The appeal of those movies was timeless, and because we just got a fine new version of "Lassie Come Home" (this year's "Lassie"), it seemed reasonable to expect a good ride from "Flicka" as well. ... Full Review

The scenery in the film is fantastic and almost becomes one of the main cast itself. It is what it is, and thats a nice little film that most everyone can watch without embarrassment. ... Full Review

It's a very good-looking film. The appeal of those movies was timeless, and since we just got a fine new version of "Lassie Come Home" (this year's "Lassie"), it seemed reasonable to expect a good ride from "Flicka" as well. And it has a good cast. ... Full Review

Flicka engages and entertains, production values are top notch - cinematography is excellent without being flashy - and matches its teenager-befriends-horse expectations to a tee. With Flicka, young ladies who weren't in the market for Brokeback Mountain get their own chance to drool over the wide open spaces and awe-inspiring mountains of Wyoming, if they can avert their gaze from the gorgeous horses, that is. ... Full Review

"Flicka" presents a contemporary version of the 1941 Mary O'Hara children's novel, My Friend Flicka , for a new generation, with generally pleasing results. It's been awhile since we've seen Flicka onscreen, with three films featuring the titular horse originally... ... Full Article

beautifully photographed slice of pony porn for the preteen set, Flicka blows its wad in the trailer (that's the theatrical, not horse, sense), leaving little to sustain the 94-minute run time. ... Full Article

Back in the late '80s, some evil statistician persuaded the powers of Hollywood that men in general and young boys in particular were the median audience for its movies; and that women -- particularly teenage and younger girls -- were ... Full Article

Parents need to know that despite a few corny lines, this is a wholesome family movie with heart that's guaranteed to appeal to horse-loving kids. ... Full Article

Flicka ends with a series of still photos, all smiling girls and their pretty horses.If youre a girl and you love horsesand chances are you are if youre watching this movieyou can go home feeling very happy indeed. ... Full Article