

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.
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6.9/10
379 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $8M
- Box office
- $2.4M
- Language
- English
- horse race
- runaway
- portland, oregon
- horse
- racehorse
- drunk
- trophy
- road movie
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereTelluride Film Festival1 Sept 2017
- TheatricalR6 Apr 2018
- Digital / OTTR3 Jul 2018
- PhysicalR10 Jul 2018
United KingdomGB
- PremiereLondon Film Festival5 Oct 2017
- Theatrical154 May 2018
- Digital / OTT153 Jul 2018
- Physical1510 Jul 2018
AustraliaAU
- PremiereAdelaide Film Festival13 Oct 2018
- TheatricalMMature themes, violence and coarse language29 Nov 2018
- PhysicalMMature themes, violence and coarse language27 Mar 2019
CanadaCA
- PremiereRToronto International Film Festival10 Sept 2017
- Theatrical (limited)PG13 Apr 2018
- Digital / OTTPG3 Jul 2018
- PhysicalPG24 Jul 2019
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+1318 Oct 2018
BelgiumBE
- TheatricalAL18 Apr 2018
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1215 Nov 2019
BulgariaBG
- TV2 May 2022
ChinaCN
- PremiereBeijing International Film Festival15 Apr 2018
CroatiaHR
- Theatrical12 Apr 2018
FranceFR
- PremiereLes Arcs European Film Festival18 Dec 2017
- TheatricalU25 Apr 2018
- PhysicalU16 Nov 2018
GermanyDE
- Digital / OTT121 Sept 2019
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Lean on Pete was released on 6 April 2018.
Audience reviews
1- S6/10
Stephen Campbell
4/14/2019
**_Decent enough, but not a patch on Haigh's previous work_** > _I feel everything I do is related to that sense of loneliness and that longing to not be alone. I think all of us spend most of our time feeling alone and we find ways to disguise our loneliness - whether it's relationships, a job or whatever it is - because we know that our central state of being is probably to feel alone. For this story that's esp…
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