Something went wrong
Try again later.
Wild Horses
Samantha Payne, a detective, reopens a 15-year-old Missing Persons case, and begins to suspect that the boy it belongs to was murdered to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs. Samantha will stop at nothing to discover the truth even if it means risking her own life.
21 July 1978, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
2 August 1974, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
28 September 1947, Meriden, Connecticut, USA
19 April 1978, Palo Alto, California, USA
8 February 1981, Allen, Texas, USA
16 March 1995, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
June 11, 2015
It's a mess, a complete and utter mess, but shockingly, the movie is rarely dull, embracing just enough of Duvall's dedication to realism to make it bearable.June 01, 2015
While far from perfect, Wild Horses has strong enough performances from its leads to make it an enjoyable and worthwhile modern western.June 04, 2015
Could Robert Duvall's incoherent melodrama "Wild Horses" have been salvaged by a skillful editor? Probably not.June 01, 2015
The final title card deems the movie "a tale that is told," but like that fragmentary statement, Wild Horses has nothing fresh to say.June 02, 2015
These competing narratives are connected haphazardly by visual transitions that feel like someone sat on the DVD remote, plus jarring tonal shifts between intimate conversations and tire-spinning car chases.June 04, 2015
[Duvall] loses the thread - and our attention - one too many times in a sea of lackluster conversations and unremarkable plot strands.June 01, 2015
The theatrical performances don't come close to matching Duvall's 1997 directing breakthrough The Apostle.June 04, 2015
What a shambles.June 02, 2015
Robert Duvall's evident admiration for his wife are typical of this film, in which so much seems touchingly sincere but clumsily expressed.April 25, 2015
Tonally dissonant and narratively disjointed, "Wild Horses" plays like a patchwork quilt of scenes excerpted from a much longer movie, or maybe even a miniseries.June 05, 2015
A complex, ambitious genre piece that combines family drama and murder mystery, set in the south Texas ranch country.June 01, 2015
There isn't even anything wrong with this being a bad movie; it's just too bad that it is.