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Giants Being Lonely (2019)

Giants Being Lonely poster
Directed by
Grear Patterson
Genre
drama
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 21m
Rated
16
Rating
3.8 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two boys on a high school baseball team in the rural American South navigate the difficult experiences of growing up. The film follows their struggles with adolescence.

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What happens

Giants Being Lonely is a 2019 drama film directed by Grear Patterson, written by Patterson and produced by Olmo Schnabel. 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. The film is the directorial debut of Patterson, who was best known as a painter and mixed media artist prior to this. The film premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival and was part of the 2020 Official Selection at the Tribeca Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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