Steven Spielberg directs this 2011 adventure film about a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, as their bond is forcibly broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend. Based on the children's novel of the same name by Michael Morpurgo, War Horse stars David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Tom Hiddleston, & Peter Mullan.
Steven Spielberg has two family films in theaters this December with The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse. War Horse starring Emily Watson and newcomer Jeremy Irvine is a good old-fashioned sweeping epic. But Alison Bailes wonders whether its feelgood innocence lessens its emotional impact.