Ordinary People (1980): review: 8/10

The troubled son of wealthy Illinois family consults a psychiatrist and starts a relationship with a girl with a mullet hairdo and thick socks.

Featuring The Psychiatrist as Detective (mother is The Culprit, of course): the piece is sympathetically filmed and intelligently acted, indeed is often quite moving, and seems to prefigure more recent slacker films such as "Garden State".

The Horse Whisperer (1998): review- 8/10

A girl she loses her leg and her friend is killed because of a riding accident. Her horse is also badly hurt.

The film tells the story of how the girl's mother takes her daughter and horse to be psychologically healed at a ranch in Montana.

The film is terribly wholesome, and occasionally twee, but it is so well acted and describes with such care the psychological changes in its characters that it deserves considerable praise.

It is also beautifully shot with a great soundtrack.

The Way We Were (1973): review- 8/10

Pretty and just about credible film about the relationship between two different personality types- a political activist and and easy going screenwriter, who run into trouble during the McCarthyite witch hunts.

Extremely enjoyable: Barbara's nose is particularly impressive.