Lean on Pete

2018 121 min ★ 6.9 Drama, Adventure, Western

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 Plummer

Charley

Amy Seimetz

Lynn

Travis Fimmel

Ray

Steve Buscemi

Del

Jason Beem

Race Announcer

Tolo Tuitele

Lynn's Husband

Ayanna Berkshire

Cop 1

Connor Brenes

Cop 2

Kurt Conroyd

Nurse

Chloë Sevigny

Bonnie

Details

Director

Andrew Haigh

Screenplay

Andrew Haigh

Tagline

"You can’t get anywhere on your own."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$8,000,000

Revenue

$2,400,000

Production

The Bureau, Film4 Productions

Reviews

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Stephen Campbell

April 14, 2019

★ 6/10

**_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...