Lean on Pete
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- Travis Fimmel
- Chloë Sevigny
- Steve Buscemi
- Steve Zahn
- Thomas Mann
- Charlie Plummer
- Amy Seimetz
- Lewis Pullman
- Alison Elliott
- Justin Rain
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Lean on Pete is a methodical and memorable film primarily because director Haight, adapting from Willy Vlautin’s novel, keeps a distance from his characters, never taking the easy route, and never, ever letting the movie enter the killing fields of the corny or cliched.
Lean on Pete is life affirming in that it affirms life is hard and unforgiving.
Buscemi is the least grass-fed of actors, meant for the rat-run of city streets, and, if I didn’t quite believe in him as a country guy, I believed even less in Chloë Sevigny as a cynical jockey with a set of broken bones. But Plummer, who recently played the kidnapped John Paul Getty III, in “All the Money in the World,” grounds and tethers the movie, as an unclaimed soul with barely a dollar to his name.