Sonora claims that Lightning can outrun any horse and jump over any fence. She is confronted by some schoolyard bullies who make fun of her hair and her horse. On her way to school, Sonora tends to her horse, Lightning. She cuts her hair to imitate a famous magazine model, causing her aunt to force her to wear a bag on her head as punishment. Sonora dreams of leaving her aunt’s home and living in Atlantic City. Sonora Webster lives with her sister, Arnette, and her strict and abusive aunt Helen during the height of the Great Depression. If you are already familiar with this film, feel free to skip ahead to our review. Our synopsis is available below if you need some catching up. Practicing all day to finally make it back up the ladder, she has Marie locked in her trailer while she makes the jump to prove to everyone and herself that she can do it and without the audience ever knowing that she is blind.Have you ever heard the story of Sonora Webster Carver? This week we watched Disney’s take on the life of this famous horse diver in Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken, which is the 91st film in the Disnerd Movie Challenge. Sonora does not want to sit on the sidelines anymore and takes matters into her own hands. Al will not let her do the show and brings Marie back to take her place. Sonora gets to take her place and becomes a real diving girl!īut she then has an accident in the dive that leaves her permanently blind. Marie, the diver, is injured one day in practice, which means. Her boss' son, Al, helps her in her quest by helping her tame a wild horse she's named Lightning. Her ambition is to travel to Atlantic City, where "all your dreams come true." After leaving home she accepts a job as s girl-and-horse high-diving act, but has to start out at the bottom as a stable hand. Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken is the story of Sonora Webster, a teenage runaway during the Depression.
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