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Dream Horse
2021 · Film · 113 min
Directed by Euros Lyn
The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream and compete with the racing elites. Their investment pays off as Dream rises through the ranks and becomes a beacon of hope in their struggling community.
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I've confirmed this is false using the clapper-massive-rotten-tomatoes dataset on Kaggle which contains reviews up to 2023 (so note the scores are different than current scores): there are in fact many movies that have high hot-or-not scores but are clustered near the 6/10 threshold among top 10% of movies according to number of reviews: e.g. The Peanuts Movie, The Good Lie, Gimme Danger, Dream Horse, etc. (filtering on reviews with numeric scores)
These are all movies with (at the time) >90% "approval" rating but average score about 7/10 with most reviews around the 6/10 threshold and tapering down at 7/10,8/10 (as opposed to being multi-modal/split-opinion, e.g. many at 6/10 and many also at 10/10).
There is a recent movie called Dream Horse based on true story: "Twenty years ago, one woman convinced her neighbours to buy, rear and train a thoroughbred racehorse, Dream Alliance. Now their unlikely story is relived in a feelgood film"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/may/30/against-all-odds-how-a-village-in-the-welsh-valleys-dreamed-big-and-won