LEAN ON PETE Trailer Premiere Enjoy the first LEAN ON PETE trailer! The film, directed by Andrew Haigh (45 Years), stars Charlie Plummer, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Travis Fimmel, Thomas Mann, and Steve Zahn. LEAN ON PETE will be released in theaters on March 30, 2018. The film follows fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson. He wants a home, food on the table and a high school he can attend for more than part of the year. As the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, stability is hard to find. Hoping for a new start they move to Portland, Oregon where Charley takes a summer job, with a washed-up horse trainer, and befriends a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete.