Pit Pony
A Diamond in the Rough
1997 · 92 min · ★ 8.3 · Drama, Family, History
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.
Directed by Eric Till · Written by Heather Conkie
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Cast
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Richard Donat Rory MacLean - B Ben Rose-Davis Willie MacLean
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Jennie Raymond Nellie MacLean - A Andrew Keilty John MacLean
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Elliot Page Maggie MacLean (as Ellen Philpotts-Page) - A Anna Wedlock Sara MacLean
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Gabriel Hogan Ned Hall -
Denny Doherty Charley McGinnis - J Jonathan Langlois-Sadubin Simon O'Neill
- J Joseph Wynne Jimmy O'Neill
- C Carol Sinclair Mrs. O'Neill
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Bill McFadden Ed O'Neill
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