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Lean on Pete | 2018 | R | - 3.5.10
A teen boy (Charlie Plummer) that lives with his father (Travis Fimmel), finds a job caring for quarter horses at a nearby track. When the horse he befriends loses one too many races, he undertakes a mission to save it. Also with Steve Zahn, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Amy Seimetz and Alison Elliott. Directed by Andrew Haigh. [2:01]
SEX/NUDITY 3 - A teen boy listens at a door and we hear a woman giggling and a man's voice (it's the boy's father and a woman).
► A man asks his teenage son if he wants to have sex with a woman the father just had sex with. A man says that a woman, "Was smart for a stripper." A man tells his teen son that the woman he had sex with the night before is married. A man says, "The best women have all been waitresses at some point." A woman talks about a man being a pervert and describes his sexual proclivities. We see a sign in a store front that reads, "XXX Video."
► A woman wears a long tailed shirt with underwear while making breakfast for a man and his teenage son and we see part of the underwear along with her bare legs to the hips. A teen boy removes his clothes to wash them in a stranger's house and we see him wearing only boxers (his bare back is shown).
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - A man forces a door open and attacks a man inside: we see a couple of punches land and hear glass breaking as the attacker runs away (we see the other man with a bloody abdominal wound and glass sticking out of it). A very drunk man attacks a teen boy and wrestles with him to get money from the boy; the man strikes a woman in the face when she tries to stop him, he steals the boy's money and throws him out of a trailer. A teen boy steals a tire iron from an abandoned car and uses it to hit the outside of a trailer, then hits the man inside the trailer in the leg and across the head (we see blood on his head) to retrieve stolen money. A man slams a teen boy into a glass door when the boy tries to leave a restaurant without paying (the police are called but the boy is allowed to leave).
► A horse walking with a teen boy in the desert at night is spooked by motorcycles on a nearby road, the horse breaks free of its lead and runs into the road where it is struck by a car; we see the horse thrown onto the hood and then on the ground where it whimpers and dies (we see bloody wounds) as the boy cries and hyperventilates.
► A teen boy's truck breaks down and he walks with his horse through the desert at night and then the next day. A teen boy steals a truck, a trailer and a horse and drives out of state. A teen boy steals a map and a bag of chips from a gas station. A teen boy siphons gas out of a car for his truck (he gets some gas in his mouth and spits it out, and then washes his mouth out in the bathroom). A teen boy runs from police after they say they are going to call family services in a few scenes. A teen boy sleeps in a tack room in a horse barn. A teen boy goes into a house, drinks water, removes his clothes and uses the washer to clean them. A teen boy walks along crowded city streets at night and sleeps behind a dumpster. A teen boy gets food at a homeless shelter.
► A man pounds loudly on a dinner table after another man mocks his own granddaughter. A doctor tells a teen boy that his father died from sepsis. We hear that a piece of glass cut a man's bowel and an infection seeped into his system. A man yells at a teen boy. A woman talks about injuries she incurred from jockeying horses; one left her with a broken pelvis and punctured lung and the other broke her back. We hear people yelling indistinctly from a neighboring house. A man tells a teen boy that he should wear boots while tending to horses or he will lose his toes. A man mocks his granddaughter and says, "If that girl gets any bigger." A man says, "I would have slit his throat." A man reprimands a teen boy for not having manners while eating. A teen boy talks about his father having left him alone for three days when the boy was 12. A teen boy asks if it's true that a man runs his horses into the ground. A man teases a woman jockey and says that she is too fat to be a real jockey. A man says, "If I had a gun, I'd shoot him myself," talking about a horse. A man talks about a friend losing both his legs and getting a concussion so severe that he couldn't speak. A man talks about seeing a truck blow up (in Afghanistan) and a girl in the truck was cut in half. A man tells a boy that he'll get raped and murdered if he stays on the street. A teen boy talks about having nightmares. A teen boy cries about the death of his father and a horse.
► A teen boy cleans horse dung out of a trailer and piles it into a large pile of dung in a barn. A teen boy mucks stalls at a horse barn. A teen boy says that he keeps his cereal in the refrigerator because there are roaches in their house. Two men burp loudly after drinking beers.
LANGUAGE 10 - About 52 F-words and its derivatives, 20 scatological terms, 5 anatomical terms, 6 mild obscenities, name-calling (hot shot, pervert, pig, a real piece, junkies, moodiest person ever, mean, suspicious, stubborn, ugly, too fat), exclamations (jeez), 5 religious profanities (GD), 3 religious exclamations (e.g. I Swear To God, Jesus Christ).
SUBSTANCE USE - A man squirts a syringe of what he says are vitamins into a horse's mouth before a race, a woman says that horses are tested for drugs after races, a person is referred to as liking to party too much, and a man in a hospital appears to be on sedatives. A man is very drunk and a woman helps him into bed before he passes out, a man drinks from a bottle of beer in several scenes, a man drinks a beer in a bar and other men and women are shown holding and drinking beer and other alcohol, a man drinks a beer in a hotel room, three men and a teen boy drink beers outside a trailer, and a beer bottle and a pack of cigarettes are shown on a table in a home. A man smokes a cigarette.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Parenting, abandonment, quarter horses, death of a parent, women jockeys, being stuck in a situation.
MESSAGE - Everyone needs family.
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