Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991) on Netflix
During the Depression, teenage runaway Sonora Webster becomes a stable hand in Doc Carver's stunt show. She longs to be a diving girl, riding a horse off a platform into a pool.
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Trailer
Plot summary
Sonora Webster is a teenager in 1932, living with her sister Arnette and their aunt Helen. When her aunt sells her horse and says she will be sent to an orphanage, Sonora leaves home in the night. A newspaper notice about a diving horse girl leads her to a county fair, where Marie dives on horseback from a platform. Doc Carver, who runs the act, calls her too young but hires her to muck stables.
Cast
- Nancy Moore Atchisonas Arnette Webster
- Lisa Normanas Aunt Helen
- Lorianne Collinsas Clarabelle
- Elizabeth Hayesas Miss Simpson
- Laura Lee Nortonas Mrs. Ellis
- Michael J. Matusiakas Photographer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
SPOILER
The real Sonora Webster Carver watched the finished film with her sister and said it bore little resemblance to her life; the only things true in it, she said, were that she rode diving horses, went blind, and kept riding for another 11 years.
