Plot: Rob McLaughlin runs his Rockies horse ranch with a firm hand. That includes grooming gentle, smart, mundane son Howard as his successor, without bothering to find out that's the boy's daily nightmare, while he dreams of a writing career. Howard's sassy sister Katy was send off to a boarding school the family can ill afford. During a holiday, she discovers an even more free-spirited wild mustang and decides to tame it, hoping it may help to convince pa she's fit for ranching. Trouble comes from nature, kin and others.
Alternative Plot: In modern-day Wyoming, teenager Katy McLaughlin (Alison Lohman) dreams of working on and, one day, taking over her father's ranch. She tames a mustang and names her Flicka, then finds that she and her new equine companion are more alike than she imagined. After her father (Tim McGraw) sells Flicka, Katy schemes to win back the horse by entering a dangerous race.
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