The film 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 befriends a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete.... (Full plot summary below)
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The film 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 befriends a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete.
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| The Victoria AdvocateJoe FriarThe shots of Charley and Pete in the desert searching for his aunt recall Wim Wenders Paris, Texas. Plummer's performance is of the finest caliber and the driving force behind the film. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThis is a compassionately observed story told with unimpeachable naturalism and without a grain of sentimentality, propelled by a remarkable performance from Charlie Plummer that's both internalized and emotionally raw. |
| CineVueMaximilian Von ThunNeither falsely optimistic nor hopeless, Lean on Pete is a deeply humane film that is never anything less than believable. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAs the film takes deeper and darker turns, it also becomes something special, something unflinchingly honest, something that will punch you in the gut AND touch your heart. |
| VoxTodd VanDerWerffA horse might not be able to feel love for a teenage boy, but Lean on Pete makes sure you know how deeply a teenage boy can feel love for a horse. It’s one of the best films of the year. |
| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlWriter-director Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years) dashes expectations in almost every scene. Working from a novel by Willy Vlautin, Haigh has committed himself to making a boy-and-his-horse movie that’s scraped free of everything false or sentimental about the genre. |
| Missoula IndependentMolly LaichAt its heart, this is a story about wounded people stuck in unhappy lives and all the many and terrible ways they try and fail and try again to make do. |
| Times (UK)Kevin MaherHaigh's new film has the substance and emotional heft to be considered a masterpiece. |
| MovieFreak.comSara Michelle FettersLean on Pete achieves a visual elegance that grows more expansive and expressive as it goes along. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesLean on Pete becomes a sort of American odyssey. |
