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Pit Pony
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Pit Pony

1997-12-14 · 92 min · ★ 8.3

Drama · Family · History

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.

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Directors
Eric Till
Production companies
CBC
Countries
Canada
Status
Released

Top Cast

Richard DonatRichard DonatRory MacLean
Ben Rose-DavisWillie MacLean
Jennie RaymondJennie RaymondNellie MacLean
Andrew KeiltyJohn MacLean
Elliot PageElliot PageMaggie MacLean (as Ellen Philpotts-Page)
Anna WedlockSara MacLean
Gabriel HoganGabriel HoganNed Hall
Denny DohertyDenny DohertyCharley McGinnis
Jonathan Langlois-SadubinSimon O'Neill
Joseph WynneJimmy O'Neill
Carol SinclairMrs. O'Neill
Bill McFaddenBill McFaddenEd O'Neill
Jeremy AkermanJeremy AkermanMr. Frawley
Andrew BigelowAndrew BigelowBen Frawley
John DunsworthJohn DunsworthMacIsaac Smith
Rhonda McLeanMiss Harper
Joseph RuttenOne Arm Joe
Mark I. GrahamStubby
Bill ForbesPriest
Jeremiah SparksTrainer

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