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Lean on Pete

You can’t get anywhere on your own

6.9 / 10

121 minutes

2018-04-06

English

GB

Actors :

Charlie Plummer, Amy Seimetz, Travis Fimmel, Steve Buscemi, Jason Beem, Tolo Tuitele, Ayanna Berkshire, Connor Brenes, Kurt Conroyd, Chloë Sevigny, Dennis Fitzpatrick, Rusty Tennant, Julia Prud'homme, Jason Rouse, Lewis Pullman

Description

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.

Reviews

Stephen Campbell

Stephen Campbell

6/23/2021, 3:58:20 PM

**_Decent enough, but not a patch on Haigh's previous work_** > _I feel everything I do is related to that sense of loneliness and that longing to not be alone. I think all of us spend most of our time feeling alone and we find ways to disguise our loneliness - whether it's relationships, a job or whatever it is - because we know that our central state of being is probably to feel alone. For t...