Fifteen-year-old Charley gets a job helping a racehorse owner and quickly befriends the ageing racehorse Lean on Pete. When the horse faces slaughter, Charley makes a desperate decision: to escape ...

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 ...

At one point in “Lean on Pete,” its adolescent hero, Charley, leans so close into a mirror that you can see — really see — just how excruciatingly young he is. For the most part, director Andrew Haigh ...

Andrew Haigh, director of the superb new film “Lean on Pete,” isn’t all that into the horse-movie genre. He’s not a big fan of “The Black Stallion” or “Black Beauty,” to say nothing of “Flicka” or ...