With the stubborn confidence of a young woman determined to prove she can do anything she sets her mind to, Sonora answers a newspaper ad for a diving girl, one who leaps, astride a horse, from a 40-foot tower platform into a tank of water. She’s infatuated with Carver’s handsome son Al (Michael Schoeffling, of “Sixteen Candles” fame in an impressive role that could revive his career), whose disagreements with his father finally cause the younger Carver to leave the show.Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken (film) During the Depression, Sonora Webster, growing up in rural Georgia, longs for more excitement. Carver (Cliff Robertson in a remarkable transformation so as to be unrecognizable), won’t give the inexperienced Webster a chance so she becomes a stable girl. The owner of the show, the crusty, irascible W.F. A poor Southern girl who wanted to travel, Sonora (played with magnificent naturalness by Gabrielle Anwar) sees an ad for a diving horses show, and she runs away from home. “Wild Horses” is based on Carver’s true story, and Carver says it sticks fairly closely to the facts. The girl is Sonora Webster-Carver, one of the diving horse girls at the old Steel Pier in Atlantic City, N.J. And the horse dives from a 40-foot platform into a 12-foot tank of water, with the girl precariously perched atop. The story is as basic as a boy and his dog, only here it’s a girl and her horse. It has a charming, emotional story, graceful production values and good performances. “Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken” is the kind of family-audience movie that used to be second nature to Walt Disney Pictures when its founder was still alive.
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