Giants Being Lonely

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Giants Being Lonely
Directed byGrear Patterson
Screenplay byGrear Patterson
Produced byOlmo Schnabel
StarringJack Irving, Ben Irving, Lily Gavin, Amalia Culp, Gabe Fazio
CinematographyHunter Zimny
Edited byIsmael de Diego
Production
company
Gravitas Ventures
Release date
76th Venice International Film Festival
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish

Giants Being Lonely is a 2019 drama film directed by Grear Patterson, written by Patterson and produced by Olmo Schnabel. [1] The film is a bildungsroman about two boys on a high school baseball team dealing with the struggles of adolescence in a rural part of the American South. [2] [3] The film is the directorial debut of Patterson, who was best known as a painter and mixed media artist prior to this. [4]

The film premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival [5] and was part of the 2020 Official Selection at the Tribeca Film Festival. [6] [7]

Plot

In Hillsborough, North Carolina, high school seniors Adam, Bobby, and Caroline experience the ups and downs of sex, loneliness, murder, and baseball during the final year of high school. Star pitcher Bobby is beloved his athletic talents, but is unmoored from life and neglected by his alcoholic father. Adam, the less skilled player, has a crush on their classmate Caroline but must deal with his abusive father and his closed off mother. [8] [6]

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References

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