Black Beauty (2025 film)

Black Beauty is an upcoming American animated animated adventure drama film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 64th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. it is based on the British children's book Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. The film features the voices of Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Joely Richardson, Emilia Jones, Jackson Brundage, Kyle MacLauchlan, Jonah Hill, Mia Shanks, Henry Cavill, and Damian Lewis.

Plot
In a Texas farm, a mare named Duchess gives birth to a beautiful black baby horse, she raises him with the biggest love she can give him. But one day, the mare gets sick and dies, making the young stallion sad, so their owner sells the horse to another farmer, named Squire Gordon.

The young stallion, now named Black Beauty, is received by a white pony named Merrylegs and an untailed old horse named Sir Oliver, they become friends. Some months later, a sorrel mustang mare name Ginger arrives at Gordon's farm, she refuses to be tamed, but then John Manly, Gordon's groom, sees that Beauty has a crush on the mare and decides to use this for taming her. At first, Ginger didn't like Beauty, but some days later she started to fall in love with him, becoming his mate. Sometimes, Joe Green, John Manly's learner, appeared at the farm, often interacting with Beauty, his favorite horse.

Two years later, Gordon's wife got sick and they had to sell the farm and move to somewhere healthier, Ginger and Beauty were sold to a cruel rich lady. The owners of the horse couple used whips on them, making the horses very angry, so they rebel, resulting on the sale of the couple. Beauty was sold to a man who rents horses, not knowing what happened to Ginger, the people who used the stallion were cruel, not carrying for his feelings. Not wanting to be rented anymore, the horse rebels again and attacks his owner, who sells him one more time.

A good jockey named Jerry buys Beauty and renames him Jack, but he still refers to himself as "Black Beauty", they won a lot of races. When they weren't racing or training, Jerry used to take Beauty for some walks, one of them resulted on the stallion meeting a bad conditioned Ginger, he tries to confort her, but Jerry appears and takes him home.

One day, when Jerry had to go somewhere at the city, he suffered a car accident and died, for the sadness of Beauty, who is sold again. The horse's new owner is a bad rider, who makes Beauty run too fast and hits him with a whip, until the day when the stallion rebels again, so he is sent to a slaughterhouse.

During the way to the Slaughterhouse, the driver decides to stop and set Beauty free, allowing him to run away to the forest, where he decides to live without humans. After some days in the wild, the stallion met a kind of familiar sorrel horse, who is Ginger. The horses reunite each other, the mare tells him that after their last meet, good vets took care of her, identified her as a Mustang and set her free. So they live the rest of their lifes together, never seeing any human again. One year after the reunion, Ginger gave birth to Beauty's daughter.

Soundtrack
Sound of Contact wrotes six songs for the film