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Horsefeathers // `Beauty' Forgets That a Horse is a Horse, of Course

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19940729
Author:Roger Ebert

BLACK BEAUTY (STAR)(STAR) Farmer Grey Sean Bean Jerry Barker David Thewlis John Manley Jim Carter Squire Gordon Peter Davison Young Joe Green Andrew Knott Written and directed by Caroline Thompson. Based on the novel by Anna Sewell. Running Time: 88 minutes. Classified G. Opens today at local theaters.

"I dreamed of what was, and I dreamed of what might have been."

No, that's not a quote from John F. Kennedy, Marianne Williamson or even Neil Diamond, but a horse, which narrates "Black Beauty" as if the movie's a form of sensitivity training. The movie is ...

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