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.
Stars: Richard Donat, Ben Rose-Davis, Jennie Raymond, Andrew Keilty, Elliot Page, Anna Wedlock
Crew: Heather Conkie (Writer), Joyce Barkhouse (Novel), Andrew Cochrane (Producer), Jonathan Goldsmith (Music), Nikos Evdemon (Director of Photography), T.C. Martin (Editor)
Country: Canada
Language: English
Studio: CBC
Runtime: 92 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Dec 14, 1997
IMDb: 5
