Lean on Pete (2018)
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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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Very best movie i ever watch
Good story, Not enough for a whole film
The acting in this movie is really good.
So unbelievably slow and dull that it took 2 sittings just to get through the first 10 minutes. Nothing happens until Steve Buscemi comes on and saves the film, but then he's out of the picture 15 minutes later and the film dies on its arse again. It's a complete mess of incoherent story-telling and non-sequiturs, but tied together by a really impressive central performance from Charlie Plummer. Coming from the so-called "new saviour of British filmmaking" Andrew Haigh, I had much higher hopes for this, but it really isn't worth your time. Best avoided.
I found the DVD for this movie at my local public library. My wife watched it separately online while she was at the gym.There is a horse racing theme, and the older horse that Charley befriends is named "Lean on Pete", thus the title of the movie. These are quarter horses, generally for sprint racing at various distances shorter than a quarter mile.Charlie Plummer is teenager Charley, living with a sketchy dad and no mother, she ran off some time earlier. Charley is a good kid, never complains, runs track, plays football, but isn't getting much parental support.He is industrious enough to approach a man for a job and gets hired to help out with the horses. The $20 or $30 bucks a day he gets often goes for groceries. But Charley's life changes when his buddy, Pete, getting too slow to win, is headed to be sold to a Mexico slaughterhouse.Charley has to grow up quickly, he sets off on a personal odyssey after his dad dies from an unexpected complication, so Charley and Pete head from Portland to Laramie, Wyoming looking for his aunt. The movie runs a bit slow in several places but young Plummer creates a very interesting and genuine Charley. It isn't a new subject but it is done interestingly.
Nope! This is not that. Even if they want you to think it is. This is a story of ambition. Struggle for the ultimate destination. And I know those words are heavy but they suit here for the Pete.
Certain films you walk away from and they consume you for a while, because they're so disturbing. That's what you can expect from Lean on Pete. The one star was simply for the actors, as they did a wonderful job! The screenwriter and director should be ashamed.