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Pit Pony

12/14/1997

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1hr 32min

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Drama

,Family

,History

A Diamond in the Rough

STORY

Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his family has. Willie's stern, but benevolent father is a coal miner in a local mine along with his older brother John. But when Willie's father is injured and John is killed in an accident at the mine, Willie is forced to step into his brother's shoes to support his older sister Nelle, and two younger sisters until their father recovers. Willie soon finds work at the mine lonely (aka: the pit) and unfriendly in which he forms a bond with a pit pony horse in order to make it though each day.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Richard Donat
  • Ben Rose-Davis
  • Jennie Raymond
  • Andrew Keilty
  • Elliot Page

    Director

  • Eric Till

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • CBC

    Production Countries

  • Canada

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Richard Donat

Rory MacLean

Ben Rose-Davis

Willie MacLean

Jennie Raymond

Nellie MacLean

Andrew Keilty

John MacLean

Elliot Page

Maggie MacLean

Anna Wedlock

Sara MacLean

Gabriel Hogan

Ned Hall

Denny Doherty

Charley McGinnis

John Dunsworth

MacIsaac Smith

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