The Selfish Giant: Case Study

The Selfish Giant is a British social realism film about two teenage boys (Arbor and Swifty) that come from hard backgrounds which has made their friendship stronger. We then follow these two boys in their journey as they are both excluded from their school they decided to make some money and help out their families through the means of stealing scrap metals and cable off railway lines which holds hidden dangers that we later find out with Arbor and Swifty. As the greedy to make more money from the scrap metal Arbor gets in to trouble with Kitten (owned of the scrapyard) and results in a terrible and tragic accident ending a friendship and a life.


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Box Office: Oct. 25-27 2013 - $132,128 at 35 theaters




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Reviews:  The reviews for The Selfish Giant where pretty average at a 7.4 on imdb.com and on rottentomatoes.com it was given a rating of 97% on the Tomatometer and a average rating of 8.4/10 by the critics and a 73% of the 267 users liked the film and gave it a average rating of 4/5 by the audience.