Project Detail

Lean on Pete

Synopsis

Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson 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.
Adapted from Willy Vlautin’s acclaimed novel 'Lean on Pete'.
SL original entry
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2017 - In Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2017 - Special Presentations
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Official Competition
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018

Details

Year: 2017
Type of film: Features
Running time: 121 mins
Director: Andrew Haigh
Producer: Tristan Goligher
Executive Producer: Lizzie Francke, Ben Roberts, Daniel Battsek, Sam Lavender, David Kosse, Vincent Gadelle, Darren Demetre
Editor: Jonathan Alberts
Screenwriter: Andrew Haigh (screenplay), Willy Vlautin (novel)
Director of Photography: Magnus Nordenhof Jønck
Production Designer: Ryan Warren Smith
Sound: Supervising Sound Editor: Joakim Sundström
Composer: Music Supervisor: Connie Farr
Principal cast: Charlie Plummer, Chloë Sevigny with Travis Fimmel and Steve Buscemi

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Film4 and BFI present a production from The Bureau

The Bureau Film Company

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Sales Company

The Bureau Sales in association with Celluloid Dreams

The Bureau Sales

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29, rue Etienne Dole
75020 Paris
France

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75009 Paris
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