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Director
  
Michel O. Scott

Producer
  
Rupert Isaacson

Duration
  

Language
  
English

7.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Documentary

Music director
  
Kim Carroll, Lili Haydn

Country
  
United States, United Kingdom

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Release date
  
January 2009 (2009-01) (Sundance) September 30, 2009 (2009-09-30)

Cast
  
Simon Baron-Cohen
(Himself (as Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen)),
Temple Grandin
(Herself (as Dr. Temple Grandin)),
Roy Richard Grinker
(Himself),
Rowan Isaacson
(Himself),
Rupert Isaacson
(Himself),
Kristin Neff
(Herself)

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The horse boy


The Horse Boy is the title of an autobiographical book and a documentary feature film that follow the quest of Rupert Isaacson and his wife to find healing for their autistic son Rowan. After discovering that Rowan's condition appears to be improved by contact with horses. So the family leave their home in Texas on an arduous journey to Mongolia

Contents

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Book

The Horse Boy: A Father’s Quest to Heal His Son, a book about the Isaacsons' experience, written by Rupert Isaacson, was released by Little Brown and Company on April 14, 2009. The book was a New York Times Best-seller.

Film

The film was directed by Michel Orion Scott and is distributed by Zeitgeist Films. It was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and won the 2009 Feature Film Audience Award for the Lone Star States at South by Southwest.

References

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