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Pit Pony

A Diamond in the Rough

1997★ 8.3 · 31h 32mDramaFamilyHistory

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.

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Elliot Page
as Maggie MacLean (as Ellen Philpotts-Page)

Gabriel Hogan
as Ned Hall

Richard Donat
as Rory MacLean

Jennie Raymond
as Nellie MacLean

Jeremy Akerman
as Mr. Frawley

John Dunsworth
as MacIsaac Smith

Andrew Bigelow
as Ben Frawley

Joseph Rutten
as One Arm Joe

Jeremiah Sparks
as Trainer

Denny Doherty
as Charley McGinnis

Carol Sinclair
as Mrs. O'Neill

Joseph Wynne
as Jimmy O'Neill

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8.3/ 10

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Release date: 1997-12-14

Runtime: 1h 32m

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DramaFamilyHistory

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