Pure Grit

[Opens Oct. 24 at the Newport Beach film festival.] Kim Bartley's poignant, down-to-earth, moving, inspirational, 88-minute documentary, which is dotted with gorgeous scenery, that focuses on tenacious, determined, skilled Native American bareback horse racer Sharmaine Weed, who lived on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming with her daughter and supportive, cigarette-smoking girlfriend Savannah Martinez, and when they move to Denver to earn money in order to pursue her dream to return to horse racing after a one-year absence to care for her paralyzed sister, it puts a strain on her relationships.
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