Flicka (2006)

Actors

• Armie Hammer (actor)
• Ryan Kwanten (actor)
• Tim McGraw (actor)
• Gene McLaughlin (actor)
• Jeffrey Nordling (actor)
• John O'Brien (actor)
• Danny Pino (actor)
• Dallas Roberts (actor)
• Angel Santana (actor)
• Nick Searcy (actor)
• Bogdan Szumilas (actor)
• Sebastien Szumilas (actor)
• Bob Tallman (actor)
• Buck Taylor (actor)
• David Burton (actor)

Genres

• Adventure
• Drama
• Family

Taglines:

The biggest dreams take the most courage.

Quotes:

Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin: Are you going to kill Flicka?::Rob McLaughlin: I'm just going to have a look at her, baby.::Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin: It's okay, Daddy. You can shoot us.

Rob McLaughlin: Help me understand something, Katie. He said he gave you the topic to your final essay in advance, and you turned in a blank paper. Not one word, and two hours for the exam.::Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin: I wrote it in my head-just didn't put it down.::Rob McLaughlin: In your head.::Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin: Wouldn't have made a difference anyway. They just want us to spit back exactly what they wanna hear. I have an opinion, it's just not their opinion.::Rob McLaughlin: Well, their opinion is that you should repeat the year, just throw it away. Do you realize what this family does without so that you can go to a private school? Truck's passing 200,000 miles. Well, let's see if it'll do another 50. The barn roof's about to blow away. We'll patch it again for the umpteenth time and all so you can go to a fancy boarding school. But I'll go along because your mother wants you to go to college.::Nell McLaughlin: Hey, your father wants it, too.::Rob McLaughlin: Well, now we'll have to worry if she'll even graduate.

Rick Koop: Sweetie, everything changes in this life. You know, one day some lucky guy's gonna marry you. What are you gonna do if he doesn't want a ranch?::Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin: Break off the engagement.::Rick Koop: [laughs] Oh, wait 'til you fall in love, sweetie.::Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin: Well, then I guess I won't fall in love.

Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin: [tearfully, to Howard about him leaving for Boston University] And now you're going away.::Howard McLaughlin: Come on. I'm changing time zones, not solar systems.

Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin: The stories we hear about how the West was won are all lies. The history of the West was written by the horse. Wherever a settler left his footprint there was a hoof print beside it. Men came further and further west to stake their claim on the great American wilderness. But they encountered a strength that couldn't be tamed - wild horses. Mustangs. The settlers called them parasites that would strip the land and starve their own herds. They couldn't domesticate them so they destroyed them. Isolated and hungry, they were on their way to disappearing from the face of the earth. Sometimes when the light disappears an afterimage remains - just for a second. Mustangs are an afterimage of the West, no better then ghosts, hardly there at all. No one really wants them, not ranchers, not city people - that's their destiny. Let them disappear once and for all, along with all the other misfits, loners, and relics of a wilderness no one cares about anymore. Lucky for us a few mustangs survived, hidden away in the mountains. We need to protect them, for they are the hope of some kind of living memory of what the promise of America used to be - and could be again. I believe there is a force in this world that lives beneath the surface, something primitive and wild that awakens when you need an extra push just to survive, like wildflowers that bloom after fire turns the forest black. Most people are afraid of it, and keep it buried deep inside themselves. But there will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father. There was once a time when Americans came West to discover their destiny. Today they seem to move around every which way, restless and unsettled. But I think they're still looking for the same thing - a place where they can be optimistic about the future, a place that helps them to be who they really want to be, where they can feel that this life makes sense, a place where they can feel what I feel when I'm riding Flicka - because when we're riding, all I feel... is free.

Rob McLaughlin: Our daughter lives in a fantasy land.::Nell McLaughlin: So do you! Look at you, sitting on top of Cowboy Mountain looking down at the world passing by. When are you going to look at your daughter and realize that she's you?

Rob McLaughlin: There's no good reason why this animal should be alive.::Nell McLaughlin: There's a very good reason she's alive-she's got mustang blood in her. She's a fighter, just like our girl.

Rob McLaughlin: [as he races Maria Bello home] Last one home is naked first!

Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin: Calm down, Flicka.::Nell McLaughlin: You named her?::Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin: Flicka. That is the word, isn't it?::Gus: Oh, yeah. Beautiful um... young girl.::Jack: Well, you got the girl part right.

Howard McLaughlin: You can have Chariot.::Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin: It's not the same thing.::Howard McLaughlin: Well, four legs and a tail. Food goes in the front, out the back.