Popularly known as “the horse whisperer,” Buck Brannaman is the American cowboy whose highly developed sense of empathy enables him to work miracles with unruly and damaged animals. In Cindy Meehl’s loving documentary portrait, scenes of Brannaman working his quiet miracles are interspersed with background info on the hardship that made his gifts possible: a childhood of violent abuse at the hands of his father, from whom Brannaman was rescued as a teen. Throughout, director Meehl keeps the tone and emphasis just right: This movie is not about a magical guru, but an amazing human. 
David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest... More by David Schmader
also, not bout buck angel, another amazing human