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Lean on Pete is a 2017 British coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Andrew Haigh, based on the novel of the same name by Willy Vlautin. It stars Charlie Plummer , Chloë Sevigny , Travis Fimmel and Steve Buscemi , and follows a 15-year-old boy in the American Northwest, who begins to work at a stable and befriends a racehorse.
Here he stars as Charley, a 15 year old boy living a half-step from poverty with his caring, but unprepared single dad (Travis Fimmel). Charley goes for morning runs around town, and his polite mannerisms include effusive praising and expressing gratitude to his dad's mistress (Amy Seimitz) for cooking a full breakfast - a rare treat for this ...
- (14K)
- Adventure, Drama, Sport
- Andrew Haigh
- 2018-05-04
Jan 1, 2010 · 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, Charley's been pretty much on his own.
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- Paperback
- Willy Vlautin
Told from the perspective of fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson, Lean on Pete (2010) is the story of a boy left to fend for himself by his wayward single father. Charley wanders to Portland Meadows racetrack one day and finds work with a surly, washed up horse trainer.
Apr 2, 2018 · In Lean On Pete, Charley, a 15-year-old frustrated with his negligent upbringing, lives with a single father who can barely keep things afloat after his wife abandoned the family....
Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson (Charlie Plummer) arrives in Portland, Oregon with his single father Ray (Travis Fimmel), both of them eager for a fresh start after a series of hard knocks.
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Apr 5, 2018 · In Andrew Haigh’s heart-heavy drama, a touching Charlie Plummer plays a poor 15-year-old who runs off with a horse named Lean on Pete.
