![]() He does all right with this material, though. All this misty gold-lighting, nostalgia and sweet simplicity is kind of a switch for Miner who got his start directing a couple of Friday the 13th films. Schifflin starts out as a bit of a wastrel, but once our young heroine falls in love, he's miraculously redeemed. This is classic Disney fare in that difficult questions aren't really examined. ![]() There she meets cranky old Cliff Robertson, a Wild Bill type who runs the sideshow and with his son, Schifflin, a handsome young man who can't please his father, but does pretty well with horses and young girls. Anwar plays Sonora as a spunky young girl who runs away from home to join the circus. The story is based on the true story of Sonora Webster who was blinded in an accident as a sideshow performer riding “diving horses” off a high platform into a tank of water at Atlantic City. They'll like this movie and the rest of us won't mind it. Yes, I suppose it's wimpy to start with a disclaimer, but it's difficult to review children's movies without one, so here goes: This film is directed in general at young girls who are still in the horse-mad stage though puberty rushes upon them.
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