You can’t get anywhere on your own.
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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Contemporary, earnest, grave and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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Cast
- Charlie PlummerCharley
- Amy SeimetzLynn
- Travis FimmelRay
- Steve BuscemiDel
- Jason BeemRace Announcer
- Tolo TuiteleLynn's Husband
- Ayanna BerkshireCop 1
- Connor BrenesCop 2
- Kurt ConroydNurse
- Chloë SevignyBonnie
Crew
- Andrew HaighDirector
- Andrew HaighScreenplay
- Willy VlautinNovel
- Magnus Nordenhof JønckDirector of Photography
- James Edward BarkerOriginal Music Composer
- Jonathan AlbertsEditor
- Tristan GoligherProducer
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