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Lean on Pete
You can’t get anywhere on your own.
Charley Thompson, a teenager living with his single father, gets a summer job working for horse trainer Del Montgomery. Bonding with an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete, Charley is horrified to learn he is bound for slaughter, and so he steals the horse, and the duo embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier.
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Synopsis
Charley Thompson, a teenager living with his single father, gets a summer job working for horse trainer Del Montgomery. Bonding with an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete, Charley is horrified to learn he is bound for slaughter, and so he steals the horse, and the duo embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier.
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Cast
Charlie PlummerCharley
Amy SeimetzLynn
Travis FimmelRay
Steve BuscemiDel
Jason BeemRace Announcer
Ayanna BerkshireCop 1Credits
- Directed by
- Andrew Haigh
- Written by
- Andrew Haigh, Willy Vlautin
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $8M
- Box office
- $2.4M
Production
The BureauUnited Kingdom
Film4 ProductionsUnited Kingdom
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