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Pit Pony (1997)
Directed by Eric Till
Overview
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.
Length 92 minutes
Actors
Richard Donat | Ben Rose-Davis | Jennie Raymond | Andrew Keilty | Ellen Page | Anna Wedlock | Gabriel Hogan | Denny Doherty | Jonathan Langlois-Sadubin | Joseph Wynne | Carol Sinclair | Bill McFadden | Jeremy Akerman | Andrew Bigelow | John Dunsworth | Rhonda McLean | Joseph Rutten | Mark I. Graham | Bill Forbes | Jeremiah Sparks | Gay Hauser | Andrew Touesnard | David McClelland | Michael Crimp | Daniel Morrison | Todd Hiscock | Everett Moore | John O'Keefe