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...stock market has come alive, industrial production is growing like a young colt, and 4 million more Americans are at work than a year ago. Then why do so many people feel so skeptical and tentative about the economy...
...notch. Prices of imported goods rise, and so do those of the U.S.-made products that compete with foreign merchandise. Example: the prices of Japanese-made Hondas and Toyotas. German-made Volkswagens, even models produced abroad by U.S. makers (like Ford's Fiesta and Dodge's Colt) all have risen since October. Administration officials now say that the dollar's decline will add one-half to three-quarters of a point to the inflation rate this year...
...Temple retired from Sunnybrook Farm. Casey's Shadow is about a family -one crusty dad, three cute sons, no mom -that raises quarter horses in Cajun country. The family is dirt poor and luckless, until the day Dad gets his hands on a promising foal. He names the colt Casey's Shadow because of its attachment to his youngest son, and decides to race it in the $1 million All-American Futurity at Ruidoso, N. Mex. Will Dad be able to come up with the race's stiff entry fee by deadline? Will the horse recover from...
...answers are not terribly hard to guess. Casey's Shadow rarely disobeys the time-honored rules of its kid-and-colt genre. Yet the movie proves that those strictures, when applied with flourish, can still carry an audience across the finish line. While Casey's Shadow is aimed squarely at eleven-year-olds, it is likely to captivate any grownup whose idea of heaven is to steal a Saturday afternoon and secretly reread Black Beauty or Charlotte...
...settings in crisp detail. Ritt has the good sense to stretch out the tense race sequences (with slow motion, if necessary) and gallop by the story's mawkish father-son, brother-brother and child-horse confrontations. He even gets away with the overheated scenes that depict the star colt's birth and its mother's untimely death...