“Black Beauty” gives the original Victorian novel ... “A mustang’s spirit can never be broken,” the wild horse of the title, whose thoughts are voiced by Kate Winslet, says at the ...

Not counting the various animated and TV series permutations to emerge over the years, the last time we actually heard it directly from the horse ... ultimately stops Black Beauty in its tracks.

And the novel’s mustang spirit diminishes into a ho-hum horse movie. Black Beauty Not rated ... Cast members from the original 2002 animated film and the live-action remake explain what lured ...

Donation Options Search Search Search City girl Jo (Mackenzie Foy), transplanted to her uncle’s ranch, feels an immediate connection to a wild horse he’s training in “Black Beauty.” ...

Black Beauty’s action has been shifted from England to the United States. The protagonists, both horse and owner, were male in the book, but are now female in Avis’s film. Here, Black Beauty ...

With vivid detail and simple, yet lyrical prose, Black Beauty describes both the cruelty and kindness that an ebony-colored horse experiences through his lifetime — from the open pastures in the ...

Ashley Avis was looking to put a modern spin on “Black Beauty,” Anna Sewell’s classic novel about one horse’s struggles and hardships. So when it came time to adapt the book for a new ...

Avis spoke about the inspiration that led her to write and direct “Black Beauty,” a film adaptation of the 1877 novel by Anna Sewell that follows the life of a horse through its many stages ...

"Black Beauty" gives the original Victorian novel ... "A mustang's spirit can never be broken," the wild horse of the title, whose thoughts are voiced by Kate Winslet, says at the outset, a ...