Foreshadowing: Sonora asks Al if the horses ever get hurt.She even goes so far as to try and call off their wedding, accusing him of marrying her out of pity. Don't You Dare Pity Me!: After her accident, Sonora snaps at Al every time she feels he is helping her too much.Carver tries to explain to Sonora why she’s not cut out to be a diving girl, he points to a poster of Marie and lingers around her chest as he stammers that Sonora doesn’t have “enough.”

Carver calls her bluff and tells her to go be an actress like she’s always bragging she will be if she wants all that stuff. When she demands that she be given a pay raise, a larger dressing room, and a redesigned poster proclaiming her the star of the show, Dr. Break the Haughty: Marie dislocates her shoulder in a riding accident and has to watch her stable girl take over the show.Then the noise of the band spooks the horse and Sonora hits the water with her eyes open, blinding her. Break the Cutie: Everything is going perfect for Sonora: she’s a star in Atlantic City and Al proposes in front of a huge crowd at their first show.She laughs about it and claims she’s making a new fashion statement. She starts to do pretty well, dressing and preparing for the day all by herself, but manages to put one on red and one green sock. Blind Mistake: Sonora makes several of these while learning to handle her environment with her new disability.He scolds her for not coming to him immediately when he still could have done something to help her. It’s only a few days later when her vision goes completely out that they call for a doctor, who confirms that her retinas have detached and her condition is permanent. Belated Injury Realization: Sonora insists she doesn’t need a doctor after the accident and that she just needs to let her eyes rest for a bit.Rather than become a ward of the state, Sonora runs away to answer the ad and seek the life of adventure she’s always dreamed of.

On the same day her aunt informs her she will be sending her to an orphanage to ease the family’s burdens (and the constant stress of Sonora’s antics) she sees an ad for “diving girls” in the paper. Times are tough and she escapes her harsh reality by dreaming of being a star in Atlantic City. Sonora Webster is growing up in rural Georgia during the height of The Great Depression. The film was based on her memoir, A Girl And Five Brave Horses. Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken is a 1991 American film by Walt Disney Pictures starring Gabrielle Anwar, Michael Schoeffling, Cliff Robertson, Kathleen York, and Dylan Kussman, about the Horse Diver, Sonora W.

Wild hearts can't be broken (1991)