
Lean on Pete
Taste attributes: adventuredramavehiclesfamilyanimalswholesomelightsimplelinearglossybig & variedall consuming questcomplex relationship
"You can’t get anywhere on your own"
Boxlist takeA warm-hearted, breezy adventure film: wide-ranging and glossy. Best if you like warmth over edge.
Taste details
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: very wholesome · Weight: light · Realism: balanced · Story: simple · Structure: very linear · Look: glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
Quality rating
6.9 /10
TMDB · 239 votes
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What lines up
- Pace: Balanced, just how this profile likes it
What might not click
- Wholesomeness: Wholesome, where this profile leans unsavoury
- Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy
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Synopsis
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.
Synopsis: TMDB
Taste Attributes
Characteristics
Where this title sits on each taste spectrum
Directed by
- Andrew Haigh
Cast
Details
- Genre
- Adventure
- Year
- 2018
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Status
- Released
- Studio
- BFI Film Fund
- Taste scores
- How we score
Similar in feel
Matched on pace, tone, themes and style, not just genre.











