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Wow! Such a good movie.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I owned a blind horse who went blind later in life. Horses can smell food and water... that is why horses in a desert can find water 7 miles away!! They also have long hairs on their nose that they can use to feel their way around. And as for the other comment about horses not loading well, my horse loaded just fine. He was so in-tuned to me riding him that he could snake through forests with his front end going one way around a tree while his back end went the other way around the last tree. The people who got him from us used him for barrel racing. He was amazing.I liked this movie up until the horse went blind and the vet stopped making any sense what so ever!

This soap opera movie succeeds because it ties together strong family values in the face of tremendous adversity.We have 2 women, one of whom lost a daughter and the other a sister, who bond together.The film shows the above tragedies along with an abandonment of a wife and daughter, a horse that goes blind, and many other problems as well.Marsha Mason is quite good here as the mother whose daughter killed herself. She takes in the woman to work with horses after the latter's husband walks out on her with the child. To complicate matters, the former's mother blames her for the death of her sister years before.Stay with this film as triumph of life beats out adversity. Poor Julie Benz, as Mrs. Garrett. What she goes through-death of her sister, blame by her mother for her sister's death, a miserable marriage where her husband abandons her and her daughter, her dog going blind, her husband trying to sabotage her success in a competition by hurting the horse she is riding and thereby forcing her to ride her blinded horse instead. If Marsha Mason, the woman who takes her in, gets any heavier, she will be a definite look-alike for Shirley Knight. That aside, this is a wonderful film.

I initially watched "The Long Shot" because it features Marsha Mason, one of my favorite actresses, but quickly became involved. Central to the story — dominating it — is a woman and her daughter — and a horse — abandoned by the woman's shiftless, perhaps vicious husband, who, mostly offstage, remains an important contributer to the plot. There is little that can be said about the movie without risking a spoiler, except that Mason remains as entertaining as she ever was. It is, despite the focus on horses, very much a "people" movie and the result is so exciting — especially emotionally — and satisfying that I think it's enough to say simply don't miss it. I grew up around horses and horse people and am normally suspicious of "horse movies." I wasn't even aware that this was one. And it turned out delightfully.Nuff said.

I am a Julie Benz fan from her days on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the vampress Darla. I nice to see her in a good old Hallmark film.**Spoilers ahead**The film itself is what your expect from a Hallmark Drama. The shiftless husband abandons his wife and daughter with no money and a bank lien on their horse. She finds work on a horse ranch with the owner who lost her own daughter. Her horse goes blind and she finds a love interest in the local veterinarian. In order to save her horse from the bank she enters a horse dancing competition. This being a Hallmark film I am guessing you know how is will end. The fact is the Julie Benz, along with her young co-star, make this movie believable and enjoyable Hallmark movie.