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Show all (5)Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, "War Horse" begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets-British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter-before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land.
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In his long, justly lauded career, Steven Spielberg has made his share of bad movies: the bloated, unfunny war spoof 1941; the cloyingly whimsical romances, Always and The Terminal; the shockingly inept Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. But the director has never made anything that's bad in the way of War House -- a magnificently mounted, yet utterly soulless shell of a movie; a production that seems to have been created using some sort of "Make Your Own Epic" kit.
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