History Film / HorseGirl

* CloningBlues: In the second half of the film, Sarah becomes convinced she's a clone of her grandmother, which she find incredibly upsetting. She's driven to more and more extreme behavior in order to confirm this.

Sarah (Brie) is a quiet, mild-mannered craft store employee with a love of horses. She's a little lonely, and struggles to make friends, but keeps herself busy with arts and crafts while obsessively watching the fantasy TV series ''Purgatory'', visiting her horse Willow—who she no longer rides—and hanging out with her roommate Nikki (Ryan), co-worker friend Joan (Shannon), and disabled childhood friend Heather (Hagner).

''Horse Girl'' is a 2020 psychological drama film directed and co-produced by Creator/JeffBaena from a screenplay co-written by him and Creator/AlisonBrie, who stars in the film[[note]]and additionally co-produced it[[/note]]. Creator/DebbyRyan, Creator/MollyShannon, John Reynolds, John Ortiz, and Paul Reiser also feature in supporting roles.

Sarah (Brie) is a quiet, mild-mannered craft store employee with a love of horses. She's a little lonely, and struggles to make friends, but keeps herself busy with arts and crafts while obsessively watching the fantasy TV series ''Purgatory'', visiting her horse Willow--who she no longer rides--and hanging out with her roommate Nikki (Ryan), co-worker friend Joan (Shannon), and disabled childhood friend Heather (Hagner).

* AlienAbduction: Sarah comes to believe that her missing memories, the mysterious scratches appearing around her, and her dreams about lying in a white room are evidence of her being abducted by aliens. [[spoiler:The film ends with the aliens apparently beaming her up for good.]]

* CoitusEnsues: [[EroticDream In one of her dream sequences]], Sarah shows up at her boyfriend Darren's house clad in a bizarre homemade space-suit, after their last date ended in hysterical shouting. Rather than being confused or upset, he is happy to see her and he starts having sex with her after only a brief exchange.

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''Horse Girl'' is a 2020 Creator/{{Netflix}} Original movie co-written by and starring Creator/AlisonBrie, directed and co-written by Creator/JeffBaena.

Sarah (Brie) is a quiet, mild-mannered craft store employee with a love of horses. She's a little lonely, and struggles to make friends, but keeps herself busy with arts and crafts while obsessively watching the fantasy TV series ''Purgatory'', visiting her horse Willow--who she no longer rides--and hanging out with her roommate Nikki (Creator/DebbyRyan), co-worker friend Joan (Creator/MollyShannon), and disabled childhood friend Heather (Meredith Hagner).

After an unexpected birthday party, Sarah meets a new boyfriend, Darren (John Reynolds), and things seem to be looking up. However, not all is well. Sarah is haunted by strange dreams that seem real, and periods of missing time, where she finds herself in places without any memory of going there. The film focuses on Sarah's attempts to hold on to reality and discover the truth of what's going on as things become increasingly unhinged.

* EndingByAscending: [[spoiler:The film ends with Sarah apparently being beamed up. One of the last shots is of her body rising up from the ground into a bright, white light. Whether she's time travelling, being abducted by aliens, or simply [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascending to heaven]] is left ambiguous.]]
* FanDisservice: Sarah walks into a store completely naked at one point, though in her incoherent state this is far from sexy.

''Horse Girl'' is a 2020 Creator/{{Netflix}} Original movie co-written by and starring Creator/AlisonBrie, directed and co-written by Creator/JeffBaena. Sarah (Brie) is a quiet, mild-mannered craft store employee with a love of horses. She's a little lonely, and struggles to make friends, but she keeps herself busy with arts and crafts, obsessively watching the fantasy TV show ''Purgatory'', visiting her horse Willow (who she no longer rides), and with her co-worker friend Joan and childhood friend Margaret.

After an unexpected birthday party, Sarah meets a new boyfriend, Darren, and things seem to be looking up. However, not all is well. Sarah is haunted by strange dreams that seem real, and periods of missing time, where she finds herself in places without any memory of going there. The film focuses on Sarah's attempts to hold on to reality and discover the truth of what's going on as things become increasingly unhinged.

''Horse Girl'' is a 2020 Creator/{{Netflix}} Original movie co-written by and starring Creator/AlisonBrie, directed and co-written by Jeff Baena (''Film/LifeAfterBeth'', ''Film/TheLittleHours''). Sarah (Brie) is a quiet, mild-mannered craft store employee with a love of horses. She's a little lonely, and struggles to make friends, but she keeps herself busy with arts and crafts, obsessively watching the fantasy TV show ''Purgatory'', visiting her horse Willow (who she no longer rides), and with her co-worker friend Joan and childhood friend Margaret.

''Horse Girl'' is a 2020 Creator/{{Netflix}} Original movie written by and starring Creator/AlisonBrie. Sarah (Brie) is a quiet, mild-mannered craft store employee with a love of horses. She's a little lonely, and struggles to make friends, but she keeps herself busy with arts and crafts, obsessively watching the fantasy TV show ''Purgatory'', visiting her horse Willow (who she no longer rides), and with her co-worker friend Joan and childhood friend Margaret.

''Horse Girl'' is a 2020 Creator/{{Netflix}} Original movie written by and starring Allison Brie. Sarah (Brie) is a quiet, mild-mannered craft store employee with a love of horses. She's a little lonely, and struggles to make friends, but she keeps herself busy with arts and crafts, obsessively watching the fantasy TV show ''Purgatory'', visiting her horse Willow (who she no longer rides), and with her co-worker friend Joan and childhood friend Margaret.

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Sarah is seemingly suffering from delusions and hallucinations throughout the film. However, it's left ambiguous what is real or not.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Sarah looks very much like her grandmother did. Because of this, she thinks she's really her grandmother's clone at first, then maybe they're same woman time-traveling.

* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:After being discharged from the hospital, Sarah reaches a state of clarity, perhaps about being literally a time-traveled version of her grandmother, and enters a state of resolve, though her goal is not quite clear. The film ends with Sarah being beamed into space, and doesn't resolve question of what if any of her delusions are real. This could be interpreted as Sarah time travelling into the past, being abducted by aliens once again, or a metaphorical depiction of her suicide, but the film doesn't give clear answers.]]

* IdenticalGrandson: Sarah looks very similar to her grandmother, which she often comments on and becomes more and more obsessed with. Eventually, she becomes convinced that she is first a clone and later a time traveling version of her grandmother.

* MeaningfulName: ''Sarah'' is a name commonly ascribed to 'horse girls' in internet memes.

* AgentMulder: Early on, Sarah googles reasons for her missing memories. Two options come up: it could be carbon monoxide poisoning, or alien abduction. Sarah immediately dismisses the first option for no real reason, and seizes upon the more fantastic second option.
* AlienAbduction: Sarah comes to believe that her missing memories and dreams about lying in a white room are evidence of her being abducted by aliens.
* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: After being released from the hospital, Sarah reaches a state of clarity, perhaps about being literally a time-traveled version of her grandmother, and enters a state of resolve, though her goal is not quite clear. The film ends with Sarah being beamed into space, and doesn't resolve question of what if any of her delusions are real. This could be interpreted as Sarah time travelling into the past, being abducted by aliens once again, or a metaphorical depiction of her suicide, but the film doesn't give clear answers.]]

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: At the end of the film, [[spoiler: Sarah lies on the ground before being levitated and absorbed in a white beam of light into the sky. Whether she's time travelling, being abducted by aliens, or simply ascending to heaven is left ambiguous.]]

* CoitusEnsues: Sarah shows up at her boyfriend Darren's house clad in a bizarre homemade space-suit, after their last date ended in hysterical shouting. Rather than being confused or upset, he is happy to see her and he starts having sex with her after only a brief exchange. Justified in that this whole sequence may be just a fantasy on her part.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Sarah has a number of dark details in her past life, many of which are only alluded to. It's implied that her mother suffered from a mysterious ailment, and that there was some accident involving her horse Willow that led to Sarah no longer owning Willow. [[spoiler: Eventually it's revealed that Sarah's mother committed suicide only a year ago.]]

* SanitySlippage: Sarah starts off as a fairly normal if slightly eccentric woman, but over the course of the movie she becomes more and more out of touch with reality. Her missing memories and strange dreams intensify, she becomes more and more insistent on the reality of her theories about alien abduction and being a clone, and she becomes increasingly obsessed with bizarre, craft-supply based defenses against the aliens. She becomes more emotionally unstable as well, shedding her meek and understated demeanor from earlier on and becoming prone to anxiety and fits of hysterics.