Pit Pony

A Diamond in the Rough

8.0
19971h 32m

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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Photo of Richard Donat

Richard Donat

Rory MacLean

Photo of Jennie Raymond

Jennie Raymond

Nellie MacLean

Photo of Elliot Page

Elliot Page

Maggie MacLean

Photo of Denny Doherty

Denny Doherty

Charley McGinnis

Photo of Bill McFadden

Bill McFadden

Ed O'Neill

Photo of Jeremy Akerman

Jeremy Akerman

Mr. Frawley

Photo of Andrew Bigelow

Andrew Bigelow

Ben Frawley

Photo of John Dunsworth

John Dunsworth

MacIsaac Smith

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