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Pit Pony (1997)

Pit Pony (1997)

Drama Family History

A Diamond in the Rough

Release Date: 1997, December 14
Directors: Eric Till
Countries: Canada
Production: CBC
Cast: Elliot Page, Andrew Keilty, Gabriel Hogan, John Dunsworth, Jeremy Akerman, Richard Donat, Gay Hauser, Andrew Bigelow, Denny Doherty, Jennie Raymond, Bill Forbes, Rhonda McLean

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.

Keywords:

1900s pony coal mining nova scotia, canada cape breton