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Pit Pony (1997)

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Description
Pit Pony is a 1997 television film directed by Eric Till. It stars Ben-Rose Davis and Richard Donat and introduced Ellen Page to the screen. It was nominated for numerous Gemini Awards in 1997. 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.
Tags
Pit Pony, 1997, Eric Till, Ben Rose-Davis, Richard Donat, Jennie Raymond, Andrew Keilty, Ellen Page, Ellen Philpotts-Page, Anna Wedlock, Gabriel Hogan, Denny Doherty, Jonathan Langlois-Sadubin, Joseph Wynne, Carol Sinclair, Bill McFadden, Jeremy Akerman, Andrew Bigelow, John Dunsworth, animal film, horse, pony
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