Fresh Horses

Fresh Horses (1988)

Love doesn't have to last a lifetime.

A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. She says she's 20, but he finds out she's 16 and married to an abusive husband.

Date of release
1988-11-18
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (34)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
David Anspaugh

Casting

Interesting facts

Fresh Horses is a 1988 American coming-of-age drama film directed by David Anspaugh, and starring Andrew McCarthy and Molly Ringwald.

Production

Film rights were bought by Weintraub Entertainment, a new company from Jerry Weintraub. It would be their first production (although they distributed The Big Blue.)

"It's a passionate love story", said Ringwald. "He's a yuppie, a young guy engaged to be married. He meets me -- uneducated, almost illiterate, sexy, complex, dangerous. So mismatched they can never work out, but they're in love."

She added it was "very dark story about two very different people. It's like a love story that was doomed from the beginning. There's a lot more layers and the character goes into a lot more depth than the other characters I've done."

Her fee was reportedly between $500,000 and $1 million (equivalent to between $1.4 million to $2.8 million in 2025).

Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy had previously played mismatched lovers in Pretty in Pink and Ringwald admitted, "It was a big question in all our minds before we started the film. Are people going to see this as Pretty in Pink II? It's stupid, I'm a good actress and he's a good actor and we're good together. Once we dove in and started working, Pretty in Pink never came up."

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