Pit Pony

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• Genre(s): Drama, Family, History
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Eric Till
• Cast(s): Richard Donat, Jennie Raymond, Ellen Page, Gabriel Hogan, Denny Doherty See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 32min
• Music: Jonathan Goldsmith
• Award(s): Gemini 1998 (Won)
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• Similar To: Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
• Story:
  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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