What a bad film.

Finally someone who sees it my way. I was very confused. Each and every review of this film just gushes praise for it. I saw it yesterday on TCM and it was just unbelievably bad. You hit the high points - bad acting and direction. I actually thought the cinematography was good but not great. This is not from some teenager who appreciates only comic book action movies. I was born in the year this film was made and I am ordinarily a fan of child-bonds-with-animal films including 1969's made-for-TV movie "J.T.", 1934's Sequoia, and the 40's "Rusty" series of films.

Part of the problem could be that the film seems to be a almost completely a family affair - the McGowan name is plastered everywhere on the credits, so probably a family of film makers working on a project can't really be objective about the quality of a relative's work. My favorite scene: a real western fight breaks out over Snowfire and these manly men are armed with - big sticks??? It really was ridiculous.

So happy IMDb gives us an ignore button ... !

I'm 65 now, I was in my early teens the first time I seen "Snowfire". I loved it back then & I love it now & will probably will till the day I die.
It gave me & my sister something to dream about and to work for. It helped! My sister moved to Indiana and raised saddle horses, I stayed in Missouri and raised Arabian horses.
So it's not the people that always make the movies. It's the story itself! It helped us to dream of what we wanted to do with our lives!

Not trying to be negative here but the fond feeling most of us have of this film has to do with a day and age when innocence was cherished in television, film, and life. It is not about the direction and acting here but the fact that an innocent child could see the world from the view of the animal. I just recently watched "Blackfish," after reading that Willie Nelson, Heart, and another group cancelled their performances at Sea World after viewing the film. I used to want to go see the Killer Whale shows but not anymore.

"Snowfire" is about a little girl understanding and respecting something that has as much right to exist (maybe even more) as those who sought to put it down as a menace. We do not own this world, we are just a part of it and as such, should look upon it with a degree of awe, wonder, and innocence. This film is not for everyone but there are few that are. However, it does mean a lot to those of us that grew up in a day when being innocent was not a bad thing.

I want to see the film as an adult because of the moral of its story not the acting, directing, or its cinematography. We have all of this technology today but it means nothing if we cannot even produce a remake of a any classic that is as good or better than the original. I will take the mediocre script of Snowfire over the stuff that comes out of Hollywood today. Thanks for sharing though.

I'm a hardened, grumpy, retired middle-aged man and I just watched SNOWFIRE for the first time when TCM ran it this morning and I loved every minute of it. Sure, it's low-budget, filled with a cast of unknowns, and is corny as hell, but I believed it. The filmmakers and the cast clearly put their heart into it. And the cinematography, in the restored Warner Archive print that was aired, is beautiful. Granted, I love horse westerns as a genre anyway, but this is one of the most heartwarming I've ever seen. I'll admit it, I cried when Molly was near death.

If you have no heart, then I wouldn't expect you to be moved by it. Or if you're too "sophisticated" to let your guard down. Or if you're looking for political incorrectness in anything made before you were in college. The rest of you will have a good time.

A simple story about a girl and her attachment to a horse that she can communicate with. Many horse stories have been told since the cameras began to capture images on film of a cast not on the A list and not meant to be an epic by a lesser skilled crew. Perhaps just a Spin and Marty meets the silent Mr. Ed that fell short of their expectations. I've seen better too! The girls only made a few movies, but their names are listed because they gave it a try to entertain. Many think they did! You watched the whole movie or perhaps you missed the part where Molly and Melodie were discussing "believing in Santa Claus". Apparently the critic is just a Grinch!

Completely agree with you, Bkin. If that makes me cold or heartless in some eyes, so be it. The film was near ridiculous from beginning to end. The acting isn't bad; it's atrocious. It was syrupy with no real moral (unless it was don't try to capture wild stallions that can secretly talk and, against all tenets of nature, mate with one mare), used every sappy cliche in the book and then some. Molly was an especially annoying character.