A high-school girl's love for a wild mustang and her determination to tame it against her father's wishes is the crux of "Flicka," a new film adaptation of the 1941 novel "My Friend Flicka" by Mary ...

2006-10-22 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- Twenty-five miles northwest of Hollywood, horses graze in pastures dotted with sycamore trees bounded by low-slung white fences as the Santa Monica Mountains rise ...

SHERIDAN, Wyo. - More than 100 people attended the premiere Thursday night of the new movie "Flicka," based on the classic Western novel "My Friend Flicka." Portions of the movie were shot in the ...

“Flicka” is a modernized version of that great sentimental horse movie, 1943’s “My Friend Flicka,” and it comes with the glitzy trappings and accessories you might expect. The cinematography has the ...

“Flicka” — based on Mary O’Hara’s classic kid-and-horse novel “My Friend Flicka” — is not really for young kids. It’s not that there are issues over language or violence, and there’s certainly no ...

At the rate she’s going, Alison Lohman should be ready to step up to ingenue roles about the time she turns 40. Her girlishness intact at 27, Lohman stars as a spirited teen who tames a spirited horse ...

Ken McLaughlin—a dreamy, distracted, imaginative child who lives on a horse-breeding ranch in Wyoming—is the ten-year-old protagonist of “My Friend Flicka,” a children’s book by Mary O’Hara, first ...

Like a football that has been kicked not quite squarely, Flicka sails into the autumn sky - here and there are gasps of pleasure and anticipation - but doesn't stay aloft long enough or travel as far ...

Two horses died on the set of the recently released family drama "Flicka," according to the American Humane Association. The association's Web site said the deaths were accidental and occurred in 2005 ...

The broken-neck death of a mustang during filming of the movie “Flicka” led Los Angeles city animal control officials to ban future use of wild horses during the remake of the 1943 movie classic “My ...

The American Humane Assn. has concluded its investigation into the deaths of two horses on the set of Fox 2000 Pictures’ “Flicka,” calling both “unpreventable accidents.” In reaching its conclusion, ...