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Lean on Pete
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.
- Original title
- Lean on Pete
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB
- Budget
- $8,000,000
- Revenue
- $2,400,000
Stephen Campbell
Apr 14, 2019 · via TMDB
**_Decent enough, but not a patch on Haigh's previous work_** > _I feel everything I do is related to that sense of loneliness and that longing to not be alone. I think all of us spend most of our time feeling alone and we find ways to disguise our loneliness - whether it's relationships, a job or whatever it is - because we know that our central state of being is probably to feel alone. For this story that's especially true: Charley spends a lot of time running away, he leaves the frame and disappears. I think we're constantly battling with loneliness, finding things that make us feel bet__ter, striving for things that we think are going to make us happy and then when they fail to do so, striving for the next thing to try and repeating the process over and over. It's just our basic biological need that keeps us going._ - Andrew Haigh; "_Lean On Pete_: In Conversation With Filmmaker Andrew Haigh"; _Candid_ (May 5, 2018) 15-year-old Charley Thompson (Charlie Plummer) lives with his father, Ray (Travis Fimmel), who is drinking himself into an early grave. Finding work caring for an ageing racehorse named Lean on Pete, Charley is devastated when he learns that Pete's owner, Del Montgomery (Steve Buscemi), is planning to slaughter the animal. Determined to save his friend, Charley steals Pete, and the two set out on an odyssey across the modern American frontier. Fans of writer/director Andrew Haigh will know his unassailable talent for what one might label unsentimental emotionalism; his films deal with intensely emotional situations without lapsing into Speilbergian fawnishness. And, although compared to the excellent _Weekend_ (2011), and the masterful _45 Years_ (2015), _Lean on Pete_ is a touch melodramatic, Haigh's talent for allowing character and theme to rise organically to the surface through quiet moments of introspection is still very much to the fore. So why not a higher score? Adapted from Willy Vlautin's 2010 novel of the same name, the biggest problem with the film is that things are laid on too thick; Charley is very much a Job figure, and suffers such a litany of misfortunes that one fully expects him to be diagnosed with terminal cancer. Similarly, the pseudo-allegorical nature of the characters he encounters is too on-the-nose for the realistic _milieu_ Haigh has crafted. Part state-of-the-nation address, part _bildungsroman_, it's worth a look, but is ultimately lacking a satisfying thematic through-line.
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Charlie Plummer
Charley
Amy Seimetz
Lynn
Travis Fimmel
Ray
Steve Buscemi
Del
Jason Beem
Race Announcer
Ayanna Berkshire
Cop 1
Kurt Conroyd
Nurse
Chloë Sevigny
Bonnie
Dennis Fitzpatrick
Old Timer
Rusty Tennant
Portland Downs Security Guard
Julia Prud'homme
Ruby
Jason Rouse
Mitch
Lewis Pullman
Dallas
Justin Rain
Mike
Bob Olin
Mr. Kendall
Teyah Hartley
Laurie
Dana Millican
Woman Driver
Heath Lourwood
Desert Officer
Steve Zahn
Silver
Rachael Perrell Fosket
Martha
Joseph Bertót
Warehouse Man
Frank Gallegos
Santiago
Alison Elliott
Aunt Margy
Ryan Warren Smith
Production Design
Magnus Nordenhof Jønck
Director of Photography
Scott Patrick Green
Still Photographer
Mary McDonald-Lewis
Dialect Coach
Kent W. Luttrell
Stunt Coordinator
Andrew Haigh
Director
Jonathan Alberts
Editor
Carmen Cuba
Casting
Daniel Battsek
Executive Producer
Chris Navarro
ADR Mixer
Patrick Ghislain
Foley Mixer
Willy Vlautin
Novel
Andrew Haigh
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