War Horse

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-12-25

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

146 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (107217 Reviews)

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Genres:

Drama War

Cast:

Jeremy Irvine Peter Mullan Emily Watson Niels Arestrup

Writer:

Lee Hall (screenplay)

Richard Curtis (screenplay)

Michael Morpurgo (novel)

Nick Stafford (stage play)

Fullplot:

Dartmoor,1914: To his wife's dismay farmer Narracott buys a thoroughbred horse rather than a plough animal, but when his teenaged son Albert trains the horse and calls him Joey, the two becoming inseparable. When his harvest fails, the farmer has to sell Joey to the British cavalry and he is shipped to France where, after a disastrous offensive he is captured by the Germans and changes hands twice more before he is found, caught in the barbed wire in No Man's Land four years later and freed. He is returned behind British lines where Albert, now a private, has been temporarily blinded by gas, but still recognizes his beloved Joey. However, as the Armistice is declared Joey is set to be auctioned off. After all they have been through will Albert and Joey return home together?

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