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LEAN ON PETE

By Andrew HAIGH

FILM4 - as PROD / FIN

Drama - Post-Production 2017

When tragic events leave 15 year old Charley homeless, he heads east, across America in search of his aunt. From the run down race-track of Portland Meadows, via the sagebrush of the Oregon desert, to the bright lights of Denver’s Colefax Avenue, his only companion the stolen racehorse, Lean on Pete

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- Andrew HAIGH
- Writer(s)
- Andrew HAIGH
- Cast
- Charlie PLUMMER, Steve BUSCEMI, Chloe SEVIGNY, Travis FIMMEL
- Producer(s)
- Tristan GOLIGHER (The Bureau)
- Synopsis
- Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home, food on the table and a high school he can attend for more than part of a year. But as the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, finding some stability is hard for Charley. Hoping for a new start they move to Portland where Charley takes a summer job working for a surly, washed up horse trainer at the local race track.
  When tragic events leave Charley homeless, his only comforts become his friendship with a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete and a photograph of his only known relative. In increasingly desperate circumstances, Charley will head east, hoping to find his aunt who had once lived a thousand miles away in Wyoming - but the journey will be a perilous one.