In light of the tragedy that befalls Sonora, this film could easily have played on sympathy and portrayed her as a victim of happenstance. Working from a screenplay by Matt Williams and Oley Sassone, Miner delivers a poignant film that works at the heart strings, but at the same time circumvents any undo sentimentality. And in her heart, Sonora knows that it won't be long before she's up there, herself. What he doesn't know is that he's just hired a girl who refuses to give up on something once she's set her mind to it, and when Sonora takes the job, it puts a hay fork in her hand, but her determined eye is on a horse, as well as that forty foot tower looming above that pool of water, beckoning to her, even as a dream borne on the wings of desire. And so he does Carver hires her, but as a stable hand. Carver is skeptical that the young Sonora can do it, but she is adamant and refuses to leave until he gives her a chance. As part of a traveling circus, Doctor Carver currently has only one diving girl, Marie (Kathleen York) the act entails diving a horse off a forty foot tower into a pool of water. She packs a bag and runs off to answer an ad placed in the newspaper by a certain Doctor Carver (Cliff Robertson), a showman looking for able young ladies to train as `diving girls' for his show. Undaunted, the head-strong Sonora, even at such a tender age takes it upon herself to set the course of her own life. In 1932, the Great Depression is on, but times are even more trying for teenager Sonora Webster (Gabrielle Anwar), who after losing her parents is taken in by her aunt, only to be told that because of financial difficulties besetting her own family, Sonora must be given over to the state. There's a very definite lesson to be learned from this story a lesson of which many living in the world today would be well advised to take note.
It has something to do with a little thing called `pride,' and everything to do with the courage and tenacity it takes for someone to at least try to stand up when even the very hand of Fate seems bent on keeping them down. It's a film that should be required viewing for anyone who has ever cried out that the world owes them a living, because the message of `Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken,' directed by Steve Miner, is that `Life' isn't fair, but when the worst happens you have to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and get on with it nobody's going to do it for you. It's the story of the kind of challenges life can throw at anyone at random, and then follow up with yet another curve that seemingly takes it beyond the limits of human endurance. Based on a true story, this film is not only entertaining, but as inspirational as they come a paean to the indomitability of the human spirit in the face of the kind of adversity that would make most of us simply roll over and quit.
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