A First Trailer for Haigh's "Lean on Pete"
Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 3:00PM 
Chris here. Andrew Haigh's adaptation Lean on Pete made it all through the fall festival season with only a few stills to entice us. But now we have a gorgeous new trailer to feast our eyes upon ahead of the film's March release. You might recall that the film's young star Charlie Plummer won the young actor Marcello Mastroianni prize at the Venice Film Festival - looks like we've got one of 2018's major breakthroughs, as he has the plum role of the kidnapped John Getty in Christmas's All the Money in the World.
After the impressive triple punch of Weekend, 45 Years, and HBO's short-lived Looking, we are ready to line up to anything Haigh delivers. But this story of a boy escaping home with the horse he tends to seems like an interesting narrative progression for the writer/director, and his keen emotional insights seem to be perfectly calibrated to study a troubled teen. And he looks to deliver some of his most gorgeous visuals
With this and The Rider, Chloe Zhao's horse-centric festival darling and Indie Spirit nominee, it looks to be a big spring for horses on the indie scene. Insert your "Andrew Hayyyyy" joke here. What do you think of this first trailer?
Reader Comments (3)
Andrew Haigh rules!
Saw this at TIFF. Plummer will be in my best actor five next year. He broke my heart. Think I cried six times. Such a beautiful film and performance.
The novel it's based on was depressing as hell, but I loved WEEKEND and 45 YEARS so I'm curious to see what Haigh makes of it.
A24 sure know how to cut a fine trailer, don't they? Best in the business.