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Lean on Pete

2018, adventure, drama

121 minutes

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...

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7.6

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8.3

2018-05-03

A determined case study of grit yielding to desperation. Its characters act like beautifully imperfect... Read more

8.0

2018-06-02

A life lesson that stands above most of the coming-of-age dramas. Read more

8.0

2018-05-12

A tender, but also hard-hitting coming-of-age drama told through the lens of an often unrewarding way of life. Read more

8.0

Rob Wallis of Of All The Film Sites

2017-10-15

A modern Midwestern Bildungsroman.

8.0

2017-09-01

Both a sensitive portrayal of childhood grief, and a surprisingly pointed attack on the societies that don’t do enough to help. Read more

6.0

2018-04-15

Lean on Pete is very much a movie of two halves, one populated with engaging and intriguing characters, the other with a succession of crudely drawn, white trash stereotypes. Read more

6.0

2018-03-07

Carries the sentimental signature that is becoming synonymous with the work of Andrew Haigh, but it is very much a movie of two halves. Read more

In other languages

9.0

2018-10-07

Een schitterende, ingetogen maar ook trieste roadmovie. Read more

8.0

2018-12-04

Een trage maar unieke film met een frisse blik op de relatie tussen een jongen en zijn paard, die samen op zoek gaan naar een beter leven. Read more

7.0

2018-05-30

In deze troosteloosheid zoekt regisseur Andrew Haigh subtiel en succesvol het hoopvolle op. Read more

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