Lean on Pete, a five-year old quarter horse that’s the best of the lot gets special attention from Charley and the animal captures the boy’s heart like nothing else ever has. Another made-in-Oregon film to hit the big screen, “Lean On Pete,” may have you yearning to visit Eastern Oregon’s high desert. The boy schemes and steals to indulge the horse then discovers that Montgomery has decided to sell it to a Mexican kill factory for dog food, glue, or whatever. Lean on Pete is a coming of age roadtrip story that pulls at the heart strings. About the Lean on Pete: A Special Issue. He grows up with one parent (his dad) after his mom leaves when he's young. They bond. Lean on Pete (2017) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The only life he has known has been a rough one, living with his father, but he has talent at football and trains hard. 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. The other is Pete (otherwise known as Lean on Pete), a quarter horse Charley meets at the local race track. LEAN ON PETE is told from the perspective of 15 year old Charley, whose story---while extreme---is in no way unbelievable. Rated R • 121 minutes. Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson arrives in Portland, Oregon with his single father Ray, both of them eager for a fresh start after a series of hard knocks. Lean on Pete demands a hanky, too, but it doesn’t invite heckling, and nobody but the boy, in the film or in the theater, is expected to regard the horse as, like, magic. Lean on Pete . Charley Thompson is 15 years old. Lean on Pete (2017) Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... Dabney State Recreation Area, Historic Columbia River Hwy, Corbett, OR 97019, USA Released in spring 2018 after broad acclaim at several international film festivals, the feature-length drama stars Steve Buscemi, Chloë Sevigny and Charlie Plummer. In LEAN ON PETE, Charley (Charlie Plummer) is a 15-year-old living on the edge of abject poverty with his loving but ne'er-do-well dad, Ray (Travis Fimmel), in Oregon.Charley is often on his own; during some of his explorations, he comes across a racetrack and starts working for shady trainer Del (Steve Buscemi) and with an already world-weary female jockey named Bonnie (Chloe Sevigny). Charley, a teen living with his single father, finds work caring for an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete. His dad moves around a lot and when we meet Charley they've just arrived in Portland. 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