eShop USA > VHS > Sylvester (1985)
Sylvester (1985)
Price: $23.90 Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302800579
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302800579
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: June 08, 1999
Running Time: 109 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: March 15, 1985
Related Items: Featured Listmania!
Editorial Review:
Cinderella 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One of the great horse movies!
This movie was one of my favorite horse movies as a teen and it did not disappoint when I recently watched it again. An excellent movie of rags to riches. I would highly recommend it to any horse lover out there!
Rating: - Great Family Movie
I was looking for a family movie for all to watch. This one certainly did the job. We all enjoyed it. If your looking for a movie for the family to watch together or enjoy family movies yourself, this is a good choice.
Rating: - Sylvester
I bought the movie for a friend for Christmas because Sylvester is my all-time favorite horse movie, it's the best horse movie out there. My friend seems to enjoy it as much as me if not more. It is a fantastic movie about Three-Day Eventing, and it is the best horse movie I've ever seen.
Rating: - Sylvester Pleases
This is a great horse movie for the in between ages of horse lovers. However, the dressage and cross country training are not realistic as it takes years to develop a 3 day event horse. Good use of our olympic riders for the actual eventing. I'm over 50, have trained and shown most of my life and this is still a favorite movie.
Rating:  - Excellent Horse Movie for Young Girls
Melissa Gilbert and her all-star cast are as excellent as ever in this believable tale of a young girl and her horse.
Related Categories:
|
