Film

Pit Pony

1997 · 1h 32m · Drama · Family · History

A Diamond in the Rough

IMDb

6.6

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.

Richard Donat

Rory MacLean

Ben Rose-Davis

Willie MacLean

Jennie Raymond

Nellie MacLean

Andrew Keilty

John MacLean

Elliot Page

Maggie MacLean (as Ellen Philpotts-Page)

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

• Eric TillDirector
• Heather ConkieWriter
• Joyce BarkhouseNovel
• Andrew CochraneProducer
• Nikos EvdemonDirector of Photography
• Jonathan GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
• T.C. MartinEditor

Release date

December 14, 1997

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Drama, Family, History

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