2018 · drama · adventure · coming-of-age
Lean on Pete
Directed by Andrew Haigh2h 1m2018
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.
Our read: Lean on Pete (2018) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · adventure · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured drama / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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