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Grade: A-
Sundance » "Over the Hills and Far Away" is a heartbreaking and uplifting documentary that starts with a family and their desperate and possibly crazy plan for their 4-year-old autistic son, Rowan: take him to the heart of Mongolia, where he can bond with horses while being treated by shamans. Director Michel Orion Scott explores the contradictory scientific expertise on autism. But the most moving scenes come as Scott follows the family on their quest, chronicling a family coming together in crisis in a story too strange and miraculous to be fiction.
-- Sean P. Means
