Sylvester
by Tim Hunter
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Actor: Constance Towers, Melissa Gilbert, Michael Schoeffling, Peter Kowanko, Richard FarnsworthDirector: Tim Hunter
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Hiro Narita
Editor: David Garfield
Editor: Howard E. Smith
Editor: Suzanne Pettit
Producer: Martin Jurow
Writer: Carol Sobieski
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-06
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Summary: 3 Stars
This is one of those infuriating movies: most of it is splendid--five stars (the parts involving the horse and the girl who learns to ride). The rest stinks--one star (the "love" story).
There's nothing wrong with putting a love story into a movie like this. It could have made the movie better. But you don't put in any love story into any script in which one of the characters is repulsive. Any script consultant could have told the producer that. (And every screenwriter of any worth should know it.) The screenwriter did everything she could think of to make this guy obnoxious and she succeeded. Is she serious? Would you advise any friend of yours to marry a creep like this? I kept thinking that it was going to be alright because she was eventually going to tell him to take a hike, so when--with no understable motivation--she gave herself to him sexually, it was revolting (and I like a good love scene). If we believed such an outrageous turn of events, we would have to say that this girl has serious psychological problems (even though there is no other evidence of such problems). In the end, we can only hope that she wises up during her coming year and finds a man worthy of her.
And we can hope that other producers and screenwriters learn from this huge mistake and write only love stories in which both characters are lovable.
Description of Sylvester
SYLVESTER - DVD MovieCinderella is a cowgirl in Sylvester, a hard-luck story with a happy ending if there ever was one. Melissa Gilbert is the tough-talking teenage orphan cowpoke whose natural talent and determination transform her into a prize-winning equestrian. Soapy subplots abound: She has a drunken reluctant mentor (Richard Farnsworth, in a fine turn), fights the court to raise her two younger brothers in a rundown trailer, and protests too much against a would-be sweetheart (Michael Schoeffling, the resident hunk of Sixteen Candles). Yet there is poetry in the scenes of Gilbert riding Sylvester through the hills and magical footage of Farnsworth secretly training the horse by moonlight. Even the trite dialogue ("Did you kill their dreams like you're killing mine?") fails to do in the modern fairy tale. It's a pretty darn imperfect world Gilbert and friends inhabit, which in its own plodding way makes it seem like real life, despite the unlikely journey from jeans to jodhpurs. --Valerie J. Nelson
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