I don't know what lawyers say after watching a movie about lawyering. The same goes for cops and cop movies. Or doctors and doctor movies.
Well I'm a lifelong horseman whose been in the racing game nearly my whole life and my take on "Lean on Pete" is somewhat mixed. The general goings on you see at the track and the people who own and handle the horses was pretty authentic. But the actual namesake of the whole production was lame as it could be possibly be.
First of all running quarter horses don't look anything like LOP ...HAHA I mean this animal had a gut like Sumo wrestler and a butt like a house cat. Real running QH's look like bulldogs, (for lack of a better animal to fit the description)
Then when the kid steals the horse and sets out alone on a mission to save him from the butcher shop, was REALLY STUPID. But then maybe it could happen at that.
But the people who are both horse people and those who aren't was very much like any a*****e you'll see anywhere in the world.
Review of Lean on Pete
