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Lean on Pete' follows fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson. He wants a home, food on the table and a high school he can attend for more than part of the year. As the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, stability is hard to find. Hoping for a new start they move to Portland, Oregon where Charley takes a summer job, with a washed-up horse trainer, and ...
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 8, 2019. Blake Howard Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Lean on Pete draws you in and denies you the chance to reach out for a desperate protective embrace of Charley ...
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Fifteen-year-old Charley, Thompson (Charlie Plummer) arrives in Portland, Oregon with his single father Ray (Travis Fimmel), both eager for a fresh start after a series of hard knocks. While Ray descends into personal turmoil, Charley finds acceptance and camaraderie at a local racetrack where he lands a job caring for an aging quarter horse named Lean On Pete. The horse’s gruff owner Del ...
A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.
Jan 1, 2010 · Vlautin's third novel, Lean on Pete, is the story of a 15-year-old boy who works and lives on a rundown race track in Portland, Oregon and befriends a failed race horse named Lean on Pete. The novel won two Oregon Book Awards: the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the Peoples Choice Award. As a novelist, Vlautin has cited writers such as John ...
Charley, a teen living with his single father, finds work caring for an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete. When he learns Pete is bound for slaughter, the two embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier in search of a place to call home. Drama 2018 2 hr 2 min. 90%. D.
