Summer of the Colt

First Feature Admission: $3. Recommended for age 7 and older. In this beautifully photographed film, two brothers and a sister spend the summer visiting their grandfather on his magnificent ranch in the Argentine pampas. For nine-year-old Felipe, it is a time of freedom from parents; Daniel, age twelve, gets to break his first wild colt, and thirteen-year-old Laura struggles with changing from a girl to a young woman. As the grandfather, well-known Argentine actor Hector Alterio is "perfect" (Variety). Selected Most Popular Film at the 1989 Chicago International Festival of Children's Films.

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