The DARK HORSE 

Directed By Cornelia Duryée Moore

Review By Kim Jindra

The DARK HORSE painfully dealt with aging parents.  Although it was beautifully filmed it was at least 30 minutes to long.  I feel sure Cornelia Moore
was trying to recreate a family story, perhaps her own family's story but it was just not that compelling.

It had all the usual suspects.  The pushy mother and misunderstood daughter, who could not get along as well as the brothers who have a grudge, and the son who left home, got the education and is too much of a success to want to reconnect to his roots and the wandering, aimless brother.  Put all those ingredients with economic troubles and aging parents and you've cooked up an old fashioned melodrama.

The characters were okay but I thought the mother was too mean, the brothers grudge too forced and the daughter was a bit of a whiner.  It was not a bad movie just uninspired.