Sentences with phrase «old racehorses»
To Cole's astonishment, his father, Harper, turns out to be a kind of urban cowboy, living in the ghetto, where he and a group of friends keep and care for old racehorses they've saved from the slaughterhouse.
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U.S. actor Charlie Plummer, 18, was named best young performer for portraying a lonely boy who befriends a tired old racehorse in Andrew Haigh's «Lean on Pete.»
Andrew Haigh's drama is about Charley, a lonely 15 - year - old boy who befriends a tired old racehorse and sets out on a perilous journey across the American West.
Dismiss them with their rabies and their psychological torture, uncured and unwanted, like an old racehorse being sent to the glue factory.
Not exact matches
Over the past decade, the number of two - year - old - in - training sales has risen, Wagner notes, a symptom of racehorse investors» looking for a quick route to the winner's circle.
Older faculty, it seems, are like aging athletes or racehorses.
Lean on Pete takes its name from a rundown racehorse that, at first, looks like it will provide a familiar emotional foil for a 15 - year - old boy as his life falls apart in rural Oregon.
Lean on Pete (R for profanity and brief violence) Coming - of - age drama, set in Portland, Oregon, about the bond forged between a 15 year - old stable boy (Charlie Plummer) and a retired racehorse slated for slaughter.
18 - year - old actor is a breakthrough in this powerful drama about a boy who bonds with a broken - down racehorse
The eighteen - year - old gives a bracingly mature and nuanced performance as Charley, a young boy living with his single father who takes on a job with Steve Buscemi's Del caring for his racehorses, including the aging steed of the title, with whom he builds a particularly close connection.
Based on the novel by Willy Vlautin, «Lean on Pete» tells the story of 15 - year - old Charley, a lonely boy who finds friendship in an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete.
Figure 2: Sagittal (A), dorsal (B) and transverse (C, D) fused PET / CT images of the right carpus of a 2 - year - old Thoroughbred racehorse.
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