Lean on Pete
“You can’t get anywhere on your own”
DramaAdventure
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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A raw, unflinching portrait of adolescent yearning set against the bleak beauty of the American West. It's a quiet, devastating journey of a boy and his horse, searching for connection in a world that offers little solace.
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