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Lean on Pete is a 2017 British coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Andrew Haigh, based on the novel of the same name by Willy Vlautin. It stars Charlie Plummer , Chloë Sevigny , Travis Fimmel and Steve Buscemi , and follows a 15-year-old boy in the American Northwest, who begins to work at a stable and befriends a racehorse.
Lean on Pete: Directed by Andrew Haigh. With Charlie Plummer, Amy Seimetz, Travis Fimmel, Steve Buscemi. A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.
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- Adventure, Drama, Sport
- Andrew Haigh
- 2018-05-04
Jan 1, 2010 · Vlautin's third novel, Lean on Pete, is the story of a 15-year-old boy who works and lives on a rundown race track in Portland, Oregon and befriends a failed race horse named Lean on Pete. The novel won two Oregon Book Awards: the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the Peoples Choice Award.
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- Paperback
- Willy Vlautin
Complete summary of Willy Vlautin's Lean on Pete. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Lean on Pete.
Apr 12, 2018 · Lean on Pete, adapted from a novel by Willy Vlautin, turns on the extraordinary connection between Pete and the silent Charley—who, in his emotional outlook, often seems more equine than human.
Charley, a teen living with his single father, finds work caring for an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete. When he learns Pete is bound for slaughter, the two embark on an odyssey across the new...
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- Drama
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The man behind the Oscar-nominated “45 Years” shifts gears to the Pacific Northwest in “Lean on Pete,” where we meet a relatively average kid named Charlie. He’s 15; he runs in the morning; he struggles near poverty with his single father.
