Pit Pony

Pit Pony (1997)

A Diamond in the Rough

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.

star 8 6.6
  • Release Date: 1997-12-14
  • Runtime: 1h 32min
  • Director: Eric Till

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    • 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

    • Jonathan Langlois-Sadubin

      Simon O'Neill

    • Joseph Wynne

      Jimmy O'Neill

    • Carol Sinclair

      Mrs. O'Neill

    • Bill McFadden

      Ed O'Neill

    • Jeremy Akerman

      Mr. Frawley

    • Andrew Bigelow

      Ben Frawley

    • John Dunsworth

      MacIsaac Smith

    • Rhonda McLean

      Miss Harper

    • Joseph Rutten

      One Arm Joe

    • Mark I. Graham

      Stubby

    • Bill Forbes

      Priest

    • Jeremiah Sparks

      Trainer

    • Gay Hauser

      Nurse

    • Andrew Touesnard

      Coughing Boy / Fiddler

    • David McClelland

      Man at Dock

    • Michael Crimp

      Collier #1

    • Daniel Morrison

      Collier #2

    • Todd Hiscock

      Collier #3

    • Everett Moore

      Collier #4

    • John O'Keefe

      Collier #5

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