While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent ... Read allWhile participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
- Awards
- 6 wins & 10 nominations
- Inmate
- (uncredited)
- Inmate
- (uncredited)
- Inmate
- (uncredited)
- Prison Guard #1
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaTom is portrayed by Thomas Smittle who participated in the actual program on which the movie is based. Thomas was in the program from 2009-2011 and had the top selling horse in the history of the program, a red roan gelding that sold for $8500.
- GoofsAt the auction in the film, it's stated a horse is sold to the "Las Vegas Police Department." There is no such organization; Vegas' police force is known as the "Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department" (LVMPD for short).
- Quotes
Martha: When I was six, I, uh, started to write letters of support to your parole board. But your parole was always denied, so I thought it was my fault that you were still in prison, because I wasn't a good enough writer. Then, when I got older, I understood. You didn't want to get out. So I stopped writing. I kept one of those letters. "My dad is fun. Send him back home".
- ConnectionsReferenced in Front Row Flynn: THE MUSTANG: Bruce Dern, moderator Scott Mantz (2019)
- SoundtracksNo Way in Hell
Written by Jonathan Boye, Patrice Duthoo & Raphael Glatz
Courtesy of APM Music
Matthias Schoenaerts, his shaven head and rock-solid physique suggesting a Vin Diesel, is magnificent in the lead role, a convict without hope or direction paralleled with the title wild horse he's tasked to train for sale to police departments or ranchers in a prison program run by craggy old Bruce Dern. Connie Britton makes the most of her two scenes as a prison psychologist working on rehabilitation.
Most of the cast is non-pro, actual prisoners from such a program giving solid performances for debuting feature director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre. Echoes of "The Myth of Sysiphus" and other existential writings underpin the action, but Laure carefully makes it a visual cinematic experience, not one of those 1950s Playhouse 90 classics from TV's Golden Age. Free of sentimentalism, it also keeps the melodramatic subplot involving chicanery and violence in prison to an absolute minimum, and is a wholly satisfying movie with universal appeal.
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- Mar 8, 2019
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Những Linh Hồn Hoang Dã
- Filming locations
- Carson City, Nevada, USA(Prison scenes: Nevada State Prison)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,043,620
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $71,657
- Mar 17, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $6,405,816
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1