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    'Lean On Pete': A Dispiriting Detour On The Way To The Glue Factory

    Writer/director Andrew Haigh (Weekend) adapts Willy Vlautin's novel about a lonely teen and the horse he loves. Under Haigh's austere direction, the film moves from melancholic to downright morose.
    by Mark Jenkins Apr 05, 2018 2 minutes
    Andrew Haigh directs a story about a boy (Charlie Plummer) who befriends a horse marked for slaughter.

    A boy-and-his-horse drama that's not designed for horse lovers, Lean on Pete is a movie in two parts. The first and better half is melancholy, but with encouraging glimmers of humanity. The second chapter is mostly grim, and when it finally offers a sort-of-happy ending, few viewers will be in the mood to accept it.

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