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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Pilgrim, Grace, Annie entitled The Horse Whisperer? End with the sentence '\nAnnie departs, driving away from the ranch, while Tom watches her go from the top of a hill.'.
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conversations.value: The Horse Whisperer (film): Teenager Grace MacLean (Scarlett Johansson) and her best friend Judith (Kate Bosworth) go out early one winter\'s morning to ride their horses, Pilgrim and Gulliver.\nAs they ride up an icy slope, Gulliver slips and hits Pilgrim.\nBoth horses fall, dragging the girls onto a road and colliding with a truck.\nJudith and Gulliver are killed, while Grace and Pilgrim are both severely injured.\nGrace, left with a partially amputated right leg, is bitter and withdrawn after the accident.\nMeanwhile, Pilgrim is traumatized and uncontrollable to the extent that it is suggested he be put down.\nGrace\'s mother, Annie (Kristin Scott Thomas), a strong-minded and workaholic magazine editor, refuses to allow Pilgrim to be put down, sensing that somehow Grace\'s recovery is linked with Pilgrim\'s.\nDesperate for a way to heal both Grace and Pilgrim, Annie tracks down a "horse whisperer", Tom Booker (Robert Redford), in the remote Montana mountains.\nTom agrees to help, but only if Grace also takes part in the process.\nGrace reluctantly agrees, and she and Annie go to stay at the Booker ranch where Tom lives with his brother and his brother\'s family.\nAs Pilgrim and Grace slowly overcome their trauma, Annie and Tom begin to develop a mutual attraction.\nHowever, they are both reluctant to act on these feelings\xa0– Annie is married and Tom had his heart broken before, when his wife left him because she belonged to the city, not the ranch.\nTom also asks Grace to tell him about what happened with her and Pilgrim in order to find out what Pilgrim is thinking.\nAt first, Grace is reluctant, but eventually gathers up her courage, and tearfully tells him about the accident.\nThe status quo between Annie and Tom is broken when Robert MacLean (Sam Neill), Grace\'s father and Annie\'s husband, unexpectedly shows up at the ranch.\nAnnie is increasingly torn by her feelings for Tom and her love for her family.\nSoon, with Tom\'s help, Grace finally takes the last step to heal herself and Pilgrim\xa0– riding Pilgrim again.\nAs the MacLeans get ready to leave the Booker ranch, Robert tells Annie that he knew he was in love with her more than she loved him, and that if he could be a better father, husband or lawyer then it didn\'t matter, he did it all for the love he had for her.\nHe felt that he didn\'t need more, he knows she is not sure how she feels about him, and now he wants her to make a choice, and not to come home until she is sure what she wants and that she loves him.\nAlthough Annie wishes she could stay with Tom on the ranch, she also knows that she belongs to the city, just like Tom\'s wife.\nAnnie departs, driving away from the ranch, while Tom watches her go from the top of a hill.
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conversations.value: Do you know the first long scene for the screenplay?
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conversations.value: The Horse Whisperer
  
  DISSOLVE TO:
  The faces are beautiful. Laughing. Eating. Everyone is tanned and exhausted after a long day, but filled with life and eager to live it. The tables are covered with heavy food. The communion at this table is as much a part of the ritual as the branding itself...
  Annie and Grace look different to us. Tanned from the sun, their bodies sore -- they feel softened, yet more vital. As if the artifice had been worn off... the armor of urban life. As the table thrives with conversations, we focus on:
  Annie and Ellen Booker. Annie looks calmer than we've seen her -- and more naturally beautiful. She is seated beside Ellen Booker. We sense they have been talking for a while. Annie is so sincerely interested in listening to her, she's hardly touched her own plate...
  ELLEN BOOKER... he was a blacksmith by trade, my father. My grandson Joe was named for him. But he always dreamed of having his own place and raising horses...
  We see Tom a few places down and across from Annie and his mother -- but fully aware of their conversation.
  ELLEN BOOKER He'd heard of some land. What's Stockett now. Rode out there. Got off his horse and walked about as far as he could in one way. Then he walked as far as he could another way and another until he got back to where he started and that's where he put his roots down... That's where my husband and I ranched and raised Frank and Tommy...
  She motions proudly to Tom who looks up. Annie smiles to him. He looks to her with gratitude for the respect she's showing his mother.
  ELLEN BOOKER Quite a different life from what you know, I expect. Which place to you call home?
  ANNIE Well, I was born in London, but my father was an ambassador and we moved constantly. I've lived in a lot of places but I don't really know what I'd call home.
  Tom listens to this.
  ELLEN BOOKER An ambassador! My! That's very important.
  ANNIE He was a wonderful man.
  She looks to Tom and he can sense a sadness around this in her eyes.
  DIANE (to Grace) I sure hope you're gonna eat more than that, young lady. You're a growing girl.
  GRACE I've never eaten this much in my life.
  DIANE Probably never worked so hard, neither. Those arms of yours are gonna be pretty sore tomorrow. I'll give you a little bit of ointment I make. It's a magic recipe my Mama gave me.
  FRANK We used to call Diane's mother Medicine Woman. None of us never went to the doctor when she was alive.
  Annie and Grace listen in...
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conversations.value: Do you know another scene?
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conversations.value: Pilgrim steps back a bit. He looks at her. He pins his ears back. Stomps his feet. Grace is about to turn and leave, but she stops herself and remains still.
  Slowly, she reaches out to touch Pilgrim's head... and he lets her. We see in Grace a maturity of character, a willingness to face what she must face... the beginning of a compassion, not only for Pilgrim, but perhaps for herself as well.
  EXT. DOUBLE DIVIDE - NIGHT
  A full moon lights the ranch. Tom pulls up to the ranch house in his truck, parks and gets out. As he walks towards the house, he hears:
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conversations.value: Do you know the last long scene?
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conversations.value: Annie nods. He reaches for her hand, and Annie gives it willingly... They begin to walk away from Camera... together.
  Annie begins to speak, telling him what we already know. How he will react or what will happen, is unknown. But these two people will no longer avoid their life together... somehow, they will make the effort to face it together.
  As Camera Widens, we see included in the frame, Grace and Pilgrim... as she strokes him and whispers in his ear... and leads him for a walk...
  Horse Whisperer, The Writers : Eric Roth Genres : Drama Romance User Comments
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