Pit Pony

Pit Pony

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 14, 1997

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Drama, Family, History

User Score

60%

Original Title

Pit Pony

Production Companies

CBC

Director

Eric Till

Description

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.