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.
- Director
- Andrew Haigh
- Worldwide
- $2M
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Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
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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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Box Office & Release
Lean on Pete returned 0.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $8M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $2M
- Release date
- Apr 6, 2018
- Runtime
- 2h 1m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
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