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Lean on Pete - Review
Matthew Brady - wrote on 08/22/2018
"I just miss him a lot. I miss him so much."
I've heard little things about this hidden gem and the great praise it got at festivals, but nothing else after that. So upon seeing this on the list of movies on a plane journey home, I gave it a try, and was instinctively blown away
You know there’s something special when your jaw drops in disbelief during an exhausting flight home.
‘Lean on Pete’ begins with a narrative that you most likely have seen before, so immediately you start noticing plot points from other movies. However, the film takes a shift into a completely new direction, nowhere near the climax, just the middle segment.
Becoming a bitter look at loneliness.
Charlie Plummer was absolutely superb. Definitely a breakout performance, as this is the first …
