Pit Pony
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.
Release Date:
1997-12-14
Runtime:
92 minutes
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Starring:
Richard Donat
as Rory MacLean
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Ben Rose-Davis
as Willie MacLean
Jennie Raymond
as Nellie MacLean
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Andrew Keilty
as John MacLean
Elliot Page
as Maggie MacLean (as Ellen Philpotts-Page)
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Anna Wedlock
as Sara MacLean
Gabriel Hogan
as Ned Hall
Denny Doherty
as Charley McGinnis
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Jonathan Langlois-Sadubin
as Simon O'Neill
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Joseph Wynne
as Jimmy O'Neill
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Carol Sinclair
as Mrs. O'Neill
Bill McFadden
as Ed O'Neill
Jeremy Akerman
as Mr. Frawley
Andrew Bigelow
as Ben Frawley
John Dunsworth
as MacIsaac Smith
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Rhonda McLean
as Miss Harper
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Joseph Rutten
as One Arm Joe
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Mark I. Graham
as Stubby
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Bill Forbes
as Priest
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Jeremiah Sparks
as Trainer
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Gay Hauser
as Nurse
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Andrew Touesnard
as Coughing Boy / Fiddler
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David McClelland
as Man at Dock
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Michael Crimp
as Collier #1
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Daniel Morrison
as Collier #2
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Todd Hiscock
as Collier #3
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Everett Moore
as Collier #4
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John O'Keefe
as Collier #5