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The Selfish Giant
Synopsis
The Selfish Giant is a contemporary fable about 14-year-old Arbor (Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas). Excluded from school, and outsiders in their own community, the boys meet Kitten (Sean Gilder), a local scrapman, and begin collecting scrap metal for him using a horse and cart. Swifty has a natural gift with horses and Arbor has a business brain and a way with words – they make a good team. But when Arbor begins to emulate Kitten by becoming greedy and exploitative, tensions build, leading to a tragic event which transforms them all irrevocably.
Details
- Year
- 2013
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 91 mins
- Director
- Clio Barnard
- Producer
- Tracy O'Riordan
- Screenwriter
- Clio Barnard
- Director of Photography
- Mike Eley
- Production Designer
- Helen Scott
- Principal Cast
- Sean Gilder, Siobhan Finneran, Lorraine Ashbourne, Steve Evets, Elliott Tittensor, Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 1st January 2013
