Pit Pony

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Eric Till

Writers

Joyce Barkhouse, Heather Conkie

Language

English

Country

Canada

Release date

14 December 1997

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Richard Donat

  Rory MacLean

• Ben Rose-Davis

  Willie MacLean

• 

  Jennie Raymond

  Nellie MacLean

• Andrew Keilty

  John MacLean

• 

  Elliot Page

  Maggie MacLean (as Ellen Philpotts-Page)

• Anna Wedlock

  Sara MacLean

• 

  Gabriel Hogan

  Ned Hall

• 

  Denny Doherty

  Charley McGinnis

• Jonathan Langlois-Sadubin

  Simon O'Neill

• Joseph Wynne

  Jimmy O'Neill

• Carol Sinclair

  Mrs. O'Neill

• 

  Bill McFadden

  Ed O'Neill