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The Red Fury (1984)
Skip this one (spoilers)
The Red Fury is presented as a family film, and it sort of is. Frankie (the Indian boy) faces prejudice in a small town, with only a drunk (John) and a schoolteacher (Amelia) on his side. He fell off a train, so he's staying with John until his father comes for him.
I didn't like this movie at all. There are many problems with this film: it's very slow-paced and yet it rushes everything (how it managed that I don't know), it takes on more than it can handle, and it never really follows through on any of the threads it begins. The title horse is tamed within the first half hour, so there's no suspense there. Frank is very annoying for the first twenty minutes because he refuses to speak. John keeps asking him questions and getting no answer--it's very rude. What's worse is that the first thing the boy does when he opens his mouth is demand John give him his stallion. That only becomes less rude when Frank saves John from being kicked & trampled to death by Fury a few minutes later.
And here's the spoiler--the horse dies. That's what makes it *not* a family film, in my opinion. If you liked Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows, that might be okay with you, but tread carefully if you have small, horse-loving children.