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The Selfish Giant is a 2013 British coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Clio Barnard. Inspired by Oscar Wilde 's short story of the same name , it stars Conner Chapman and Shaun Thomas as two teenage boys who get caught up in the world of copper theft.
Oct 25, 2013 · The Selfish Giant: Directed by Clio Barnard. With Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Ralph Ineson, Ian Burfield. Two thirteen year-old working-class friends in Bradford seek fortune by getting involved with a local scrap dealer and criminal.
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- Clio Barnard
- 2013-10-25
Jul 8, 2024 · The Selfish Giant is 2551 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 1590 places since yesterday. In the United Kingdom, it is currently more popular than Anna but less popular than Vanishing on 7th Street. 2547.
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Powered by JustWatch. "The Selfish Giant" is easy to admire but difficult to recommend, because its vision of friendship, poverty and desperation is so stark. Written and directed by Clio Barnard, this film about adolescent boys who gather scrap to help their families is based on a fable by Oscar Wilde. But where Wilde's story summons warmly ...
A scrap dealer, Kitten (Sean Gilder), exploits their energy and naivety by buying stolen goods from them. You know it could end badly. ‘The Selfish Giant’ feels a bit like one of those doomy ...
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Nov 14, 2013 · The Selfish Giant has anything but a romantic view of childhood and while it may be based on a children’s story there is no fairy tale ending. It’s a heartbreaking film, not just because of the situation these two young lads find themselves in but in the wider sense of the desperation of their community in the post-industrial, post-Thatcher world.