Pit Pony

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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.

Country:

Canada

Genre:

Drama,

Family,

History

Duration:

92 minutes

Year:

1997

Director:

Eric Till

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Company:

CBC

Cast:
Richard Donat

Rory MacLean

Ben Rose-Davis

Willie MacLean

Jennie Raymond

Nellie MacLean

Andrew Keilty

John MacLean

Elliot Page

Maggie MacLean

Crew:
Eric Till

Director

Heather Conkie

Writer

Joyce Barkhouse

Novel

Andrew Cochrane

Producer

Jonathan Goldsmith

Music