Philly is deeply troubled by the fact that his mother recently sent his older brother Morris to live at a mental health facility. While wandering about on a day that he decides to skip school, Philly learns of one particular historical incident that sheds new light on his brother's and mother's predicament. The Horse Latitudes is a psychological drama that probes popular perceptions of "conformity" and "freedom", and asks what it takes to be functional.
Robert Naylor
Philadelphia
Kristian Hodko
Morris
Karl Graboshas
Stretch
Al Dubois
Bryson
Nick Walker
Twain
Jonathan Emile
Male Nurse
Suzanna Lenir
Teacher
Philly is deeply troubled by the fact that his mother recently sent his older brother Morris to live at a mental health facility. While wandering about on a day that he decides to skip school, Philly learns of one particular historical incident that sheds new light on his brother's and mother's predicament. The Horse Latitudes is a psychological drama that probes popular perceptions of "conformity" and "freedom", and asks what it takes to be functional.
The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.
Born free in the American West, Black Beauty is a horse rounded up and brought to Birtwick Stables, where she meets spirited teenager Jo Green. The two forge a bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters, challenges and adventures.
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the boy to conceive his dream and pursue it.
Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the mare and save it from being sacrificed by the owner.
The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.
Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark stripes mark him as different, he decides he'll race anyway. And with help from the young girl who raised him, he just might end up in the winner's circle.
Camp Belvidere is a lesbian romance set in the 1950s about the coming of age of Camp Leader Rose and her forbidden encounter with Nurse Gin. It depicts the journey and evolution of a friendship into a romance between two women when their rapport would have been unlikely.
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.