The Electric Horseman | | Cast : | Robert Redford, Jane Fonda | | Director : | Sydney Pollack | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned | | Released Date : | January 01, 1979 | | DVD Released Date : | May 06, 2003 | | Language : | | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 23, 2005 | | Summary | There Is Nothing "Electric" About This Movie!!! | Content
 | In this movie we see Sonny Steele played by Rober Redford who used to be a Rodeo Hero but now is a washed up drunken walking advertisement for Ranch Breakfast Cereal . Sonny gets tired of the easy demands of his new job and steals the company's horse from a Las Vegas Casino.Perhaps he preferred his old job where some bucking bronco would break his ribs.I have heard that some guys are "into pain". Then Sonny is persued by Hallie Martin , played by Jane Fonda and the two of them have the usual, typical and obligatory Hollywood sexual encounter in the wilderness. The horse in this movie is quite exceptional as he manages to be a pacer, a trotter and even a steeplechaser !!!Sadly horses such as these do not exist in Real Life.I can't figure out why Hallie and Sonny are attracted to each other and if anybody can enlighten me kindly write to me via my Email address. I give this movie 5 stars because I like Willie Nelson who has a small but vital part in this very disppointing movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 04, 2005 | | Summary | Very Excellent, Very Timeless, and VERY Fun | Content
| "The Electric Horseman" is Top-Drawer Redford. No one, anywhere, could have played Sonny Steele with even a tenth of the talent and showmanship and precision and exquisite timing as does Redford. Only Redford can portray a character as simultaneously offbeat, comical, confused, thoughtful, simple, complex and sad as Sonny Steele. No one but Redford's Sonny Steele could so accurately embody the honest pathos dwelling in Willie Nelson's "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys".
And beneath Redford's sterling performance is even more Fun. The fun-loving, free-wheeling style of the Independent Westerner juxtaposed against the rigidly organized Selfishness and Arrogance of Corproate America's "elite" is deliciously appropo. The consistant making of the sorry newspaper bimbo (Jane Fonda) look exactly like what she was, or had become, is priceless. The swing from a simple man of real heart and real honor "just trying to get back to himself" to a clever cowboy with easily enough nerve to ride someone's million-dollar horse down the Vegas strip and disappear right under their upturned noses is a delightfiul display of "real" winning over "fake" - the "Little Guy" deftly pulling the plug on America's Corporate People-shredder - a sight most of this country can thoroughly and wildly applaud. No, it couldn't really happen - but Redford makes it absolutely Grand Fun to pretend it could. And anyway... maybe ... just maybe, it could. We can always Hope! |
| Rating | | | Date | December 29, 2004 | | Summary | Funny, Romantic, and Dramatic... and Robert Redford! | Content
| When washed-up rodeo champion Sonny Steele (Robert Redford) steals a Quarterhorse named Rising Star (who's a similarly washed up former champ), he sets off on a cross-country adventure with the goal being to set the horse free. The law follows, as does a tenacious reporter (Jane Fonda) who gets more story than she bargained for. Wonderful story of redemption and the right to personal freedom.
Staci Layne Wilson
Author of Staci's Guide to Animal Movies
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| Rating | | | Date | February 11, 2004 | | Summary | A REDFORD CLASSIC | Content
| In THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN Robert Redford plays Sonny Steele, an aging all-around champion rodeo cowboy who, as the result of numerous injuries and losing step with rodeo, has lost his vision and become a corporate spokesman for a cereal company. He somehow puts up with a lifestyle that, while making him rich beyond his dreams, has reduced him to nothing more than a poster boy. When Steele discovers that the company has purchased a classic racehorse, Rising Star, and is determined to do the same thing to the horse as they have done to him, doping it up and dragging it down in the process, he decides to save the horse's dignity and in the process saves himself as well. Redford's performance is wonderful and spontaneous. Jane Fonda shines as a TV reporter bent on getting a story at any cost and in the end gets the cowboy too. Together Redford and Fonda pack the screen with a chemistry that quite literally mesmerizes every viewer. Willie Nelson is terrific as a Steele handler and contributes with some of his best musical offerings and look for an early Wilford Brimley cameo. Buy this one for the soundtrack alone. I keep hoping that one of these days Willie Nelson fans and lovers of the classic western harmonica tracks in this one will stage some sort of a revolt to get it released. Until then the movie's the next best thing. Douglas McAllister |
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