My Old Man (1979)
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Directors
John Erman
Cast
Kristy McNichol
The story
Frank Butler is a cantankerous unlucky horse trainer who wins big at the track and buys a horse for his jockey daughter Jo in an attempt to reconcile their troubled relationship.
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