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A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.
Apr 6, 2018 | Theatrical Limited (187 locations)
Other Key Dates
Sep 1, 2017 (Venice Film Festival (Italy))
Sep 1, 2017 (Telluride Film Festival (USA))
Sep 10, 2017 (Toronto International Film Festival (Canada))
Oct 5, 2017 (London Film Festival (UK))
Nov 9, 2017 (Los Cabos International Film Festival (Mexico))
Nov 10, 2017 (Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece))
Dec 18, 2017 (Les Arcs European Film Festival (France))
Jan 10, 2018 (Palm Springs International Film Festival (USA))
Jan 27, 2018 (International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands))
Feb 22, 2018 (Luxembourg City Film Festival (Luxembourg))
Feb 25, 2018 (Belgrade Film Festival (Serbia))
Feb 28, 2018 (Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (Ireland))
Feb 28, 2018 (Portland International Film Festival (USA))
Mar 9, 2018 (South by Southwest Film Festival (USA))
Apr 15, 2018 (Cleveland International Film Festival (USA))
Apr 20, 2018 (Sarasota Film Festival (USA))
May 6, 2018 (D'A Film Festival (Spain))
Jul 27, 2018 (Jerusalem Film Festival (Israel))
Aug 20, 2018 (DVD premiere (Poland))
Oct 13, 2018 (Adelaide Film Festival (Australia))
Mar 15, 2020 (TV premiere (Sweden))
$46,975
$1,163,056
$1,280,528
$2,443,584
Sound Mix: Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
The film follows fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson. He wants a home, food on the table and a high school he can attend for more than part of the year. As the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, stability is hard to find. Hoping for a new start they move to Portland, Oregon where Charley takes a summer job, with a washed-up horse trainer, and befriends a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete.
The film follows fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson. He wants a home, food on the table and a high school he can attend for more than part of the year. As the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, stability is hard to find. Hoping for a new start they move to Portland, Oregon where Charley takes a summer job, with a washed-up horse trainer, and befriends a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete. 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 American frontier in search of a place to call home. — AnonymousB Charley Thompson (Plummer), a teenager living with his single father, gets a summer job working for horse trainer Del Montgomery. Bonding with an ageing 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.