Sonora cuts her hair short like the illustration, and her aunt makes her wear a bag over her head when she leaves the house to hide her new haircut. Sonora is supposed to be getting ready for school, but she is looking at a magazine ad for Atlantic City that features an illustration of a stylish lady with short hair. Sonora and her little sister live on their aunt’s farm, and that is where the movie opens up. The movie is set during the Great Depression and stars Gabrielle Anwar as the main character, Sonora Webster.

I don’t remember ever seeing this movie in a theater, so I probably found it in the video rental store months later and rented it, and then a copy was made and that was the tape I had. This is a “based on a true story” live-action Disney move that was released on May 24, 1991. A few years ago my best friend bought me the movie on DVD for my birthday and I got to watch it again for the first time in years. I had this movie on a VHS tape as a kid and I nearly wore the tape out watching it over and over again. “Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken” is a movie I loved as a child and still love to this day. Today, I want to share my favorite horse-related movie with all of you! I didn’t have real horses in my life, so books and movies had to do for my horse fix.

I was the girl who read every horse book in the local library and rented every horse movie at the local video store.

Wild hearts can't be broken setting