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Pit Pony

Pit Pony

# A Diamond in the Rough
Drama   Family   History
📜 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.
🌏 Languages Available: English
📆 Date Released: 1997-12-14
⌚ Running Time: 92 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 6.0

Beloved Cast

Richard Donat original image
Rory MacLean
Richard Donat
Ben Rose-Davis original image
Willie MacLean
Ben Rose-Davis
Jennie Raymond original image
Nellie MacLean
Jennie Raymond
Andrew Keilty original image
John MacLean
Andrew Keilty
Elliot Page original image
Maggie MacLean
Elliot Page
Anna Wedlock original image
Sara MacLean
Anna Wedlock
Gabriel Hogan original image
Ned Hall
Gabriel Hogan
Denny Doherty original image
Charley McGinnis
Denny Doherty
John Dunsworth original image
MacIsaac Smith
John Dunsworth

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