I was invested. This was a terrible movie. Depressing, slow, wished I had chose something else. Shipley have been call So sorry Charlie.

The horse gets hit by a car and dies! Awful! So awful that I lost interest in the kid, and fast-forwarded till the ending. If you're a horse lover, don't watch this movie.

You watch this expecting to be some twist at the end that redeeems the whole movie but there isn´t. The acting was good though.

Horse racing in Portland? Sure. That is akin to cattle farming in Alaska, or snowplowing in New Mexico. This movie was written and directed by British people who know nothing about Portland Oregon. Horse farming in Portland is niche and is solely owned/operated by families... people do not move to Portland to care for horses. They might move to outlying areas in Oregon and hope to be able to work on a farm with migrant workers for less than minimum wage, but they don't do what this story implies. Another example of a great story being filmed in a city where the inhabitants are so in love with themselves that they rate anything filmed in the city 110%, especially if it sucks.Now I'm not saying the movie is horrible... I'm just saying that this is a British film, screened in British/European film festivals with Australian and British actors (and friends of Buschemi from Boardwalk Empire) and that one chick from Kids, that is filmed in Portland Oregon where a story like this would never ever take place, by people who don't know anything about the region geographically or culturally. And simply because the film takes place in Portland Oregon all of the Hollywood elitists and liberals couldn't possibly do anything less than rate this movie a 7+/10.Just because the book is good, the story is good, a couple of the actors are good, and the city is favored by the people who attend film festivals, does not mean that the movie is good. If you set your story somewhere that is not realistic, then you can't expect your story to be taken seriously. Especially 7+/10 seriously. I give it a 5. And I'm sure that it will be closer to that within a few years when the hyped-up ratings die down.