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Robert Redford\u2019s \u2018The Horse Whisperer\u2019 may be the stuff of pat Hollywood drama, but Buck Brannaman, the quietly charismatic horseman who helped inspire both the 1998 film and the novel upon which it was based, is actually quite real. Cindy Meehl\u2019s stirring \u2018Buck\u2019, then, is a soulful and delicately illuminating documentary portrait of the soft-spoken man \u2014 and a movie that also makes a persuasive and heartrending case for the ability of human healing. The Audience Award winner at this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival, the film is a must-see for horse aficionados, of course, but just as accessible and interesting for those who\u2019ve never sat astride one of the creatures. We had a chance to speak with Meehl one-on-one recently, … read complete interview ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 6\/15\/2011 Robert Redford\u2019s \u2018The Horse Whisperer\u2019 may be the stuff of pat Hollywood drama, but Buck Brannaman, the quietly charismatic horseman who helped inspire both the 1998 film and the novel upon which it was based, is actually quite real. Cindy Meehl\u2019s stirring \u2018Buck\u2019, then, is a soulful and delicately illuminating documentary portrait of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}