Ken McLaughlin—a dreamy, distracted, imaginative child who lives on a horse-breeding ranch in Wyoming—is the ten-year-old protagonist of “My Friend Flicka,” a children’s book by Mary O’Hara, first ...

“Flicka” is a modernized version of that great sentimental horse movie, 1943’s “My Friend Flicka,” and it comes with the glitzy trappings and accessories you might expect. The cinematography has the ...

Flicka: Drama. Starring Tim McGraw, Maria Bello, Alison Lohman and Ryan Kwanten. Directed by Michael Mayer. (PG. 94 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Tim McGraw would make a good Cartwright. He's ...

She often appears on multiplex screens au naturel (Permanent Midnight, The Cooler, A History of Violence) and talks frankly about sexuality whenever asked (check out her defense of, er, private body ...

2006-10-22 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- Twenty-five miles northwest of Hollywood, horses graze in pastures dotted with sycamore trees bounded by low-slung white fences as the Santa Monica Mountains rise ...

The actor explains his curious nickname for his wife in his acceptance-speech shout-out No, William H. Macy isn’t referring to his wife in any equine way! Anyone who watched the Shameless star, 64, ...

Flicka is the heartfelt story about a teenage girl and a wild stallion she finds on her Wyoming ranch. The story begins by introducing the girl's troubles with her father and poor performance at ...

LOS ANGELES -- He grew up riding horses and roping cows but when it came to playing a cowboy in the movies, country and western singer Tim McGraw wanted no part of it. But that is exactly what he ...

At the rate she’s going, Alison Lohman should be ready to step up to ingenue roles about the time she turns 40. Her girlishness intact at 27, Lohman stars as a spirited teen who tames a spirited horse ...

Like a football that has been kicked not quite squarely, Flicka sails into the autumn sky - here and there are gasps of pleasure and anticipation - but doesn't stay aloft long enough or travel as far ...