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Fresh Horses (1988) 4.9
A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. She claims to be 20 years old, but ... See full summary » Director:David AnspaughWriter:Larry Ketron (screenplay) |
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Jewel
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| Andrew McCarthy | ... |
Matt Larkin
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| Patti D'Arbanville | ... |
Jean
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Tipton
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| Leon Russom | ... |
Kyle Larkin
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Ellen
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| Viggo Mortensen | ... |
Green
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| Doug Hutchison | ... |
Sproles
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Chiara Peacock | ... |
Alice
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| Marita Geraghty | ... |
Maureen
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Rachel Jones | ... |
Babe
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| Welker White | ... |
Christy
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Christy Budig | ... |
Laurel
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Larry Ketron | ... |
Roy
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Ken Strunk | ... |
Dr. Lippincutt
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A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. She claims to be 20 years old, but he learns that she's actually just 16 and already married. Written by Chris Cuomo
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engagement | class differences | molestation | animal in title | title based on shakespeare |Taglines:
Love doesn't have to last a lifetime. See more »Genres:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
18 November 1988 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Zärtliche Liebe See more »Box Office
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$6,640,346 (USA)Company Credits
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After watching this film I had some questions. What does the title refer to? There are horses in this film but are they fresh? Does it refer to the couple at all? And what does that have to do with the love story? Who comes up with these movie titles? And why?
Silly questions aside, Fresh Horses is a film with an adult story aimed at using the onscreen chemistry of Andrew McCarthy and Molly Ringwald, (who were first paired as everyone knows in the excellent Pretty In Pink) in a serious love story. Ringwald is Jewel, a mysterious country girl, all pink lips and tousled curly hair. She meets Matt (McCarthy) a college upper middle class guy with a pretty stable and boring life. He's engaged to the perfect women, and has your typical annoying university friends. She has a past and a reputation, but he becomes smitten with her and attempts to change his life so they can be together.
As my Video and Movie Guide said, this film is just an adult version of Pretty In Pink. He's more classy than her, she knows who she is and he has to learn to be worthy of her, not the other way around. I don't know about that judgement. Yes, it is the same couple. Yes, the story is similiar, but with sexual themes. But the more I think about the ending, the scenery and the sets of this film the more its intelligence shines through. The film is about pushing you to change, propelling someone to see their life through other's eyes and making you believe in yourself.
As someone said in the messageboards, the settings are eerie, and the characterisations are spooky. Viggo Mortensen is great as Green. Ben Stiller, as Matt's friend is weirdly creepy. We never quite know what people's motvations are, and although the dialogue is terribly clunky in moments between the two leads, this is a film that knows it is not formulaic. For the plastic period the 80's, Fresh Horses sits nicely jagged in its themes and story. They should not be all be standard and set.