Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Romance
Release Year: 1991
Country: USA
Runtime: 88
Rating: 7.3 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Steve Miner
Sound: Dolby
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Writing by: Matt Williams - (written by) &
Oley Sassone - (written by)

Produced by: Sarah Brock - associate producer
Robin S. Clark - co-producer
Oley Sassone - executive producer
Matt Williams - producer

Cast: Gabrielle Anwar - Sonora Webster
Michael Schoeffling - Al Carver
Cliff Robertson - Doctor Carver
Dylan Kussman - Clifford
Kathleen York - Marie
Frank Renzulli - Mr. Slater
Nancy Moore Atchison - Arnette
Lisa Norman - Aunt Helen
Lorianne Collins - Clarabelle
Elizabeth Hayes - Miss Simpson
Laura Lee Norton - Mrs. Ellis

Music: Mason Daring
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Plot Outline: This is the story of Sonora Webster, a teenage runaway during the Depression. Her lifes ambition is to travel to Atlantic City…
Plot: This is the story of Sonora Webster, a teenage runaway during the Depression. Her lifes ambition is to travel to Atlantic City, where “all your dreams come true.” After leaving home she accepts a job from Dr. Carver and his girl-and-horse high diving act. Starting out as a stable hand her goal is to become a real diving girl. Dr. Carvers son, Al, helps her in her quest by helping her tame a wild horse shes named Lightning. Their early morning practices lead not only to Sonora being put into training as a diving girl, but also for Als emotions for Sonora to begin to surface. Al leaves after an argument with his father and the diver girl, Marie, is injured in a practice. Sonora finally takes her place and becomes a real diving girl. The act is thriving but fairgrounds are suffering hard times and the show is closed. Al comes back with the surprise revelation of getting the act booked in Atlantic City. Dr. Carver passes away en route to New Jersey and Al takes over. He asks Sonora to marry him before her first jump in her dream city. She accepts but then has an accident in the dive that leaves her permanently blind. Al will not let her do the show and brings Marie back to take her place. Sonora does not want to sit on the sidelines anymore and takes matters into her own hands. 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.

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Thomas Peter Daikos ….Flying Baby Garp

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: At the beginning of the movie when Sonora jumps the fence on Lightning on the way to school, he only breaks the top board of the fence. When the cows are breaking out of the field through the newly broken fence, both boards are suddenly broken.

Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The house that the plane crashes into was built at one end of the only runway at Lincoln Park Airport, a very small airstrip in Lincoln Park, NJ USA (about 35 miles NW of New York City). The wrecked house was not removed for several weeks. While no planes have hit houses in the vicinity, one did bounce off the roof of a passing car several years earlier.
• Glenn Close plays Robin Williamss mother, yet she is only four years older than he.
• Jeff Daniels was considered for the lead role but lost out to Robin Williams.





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