Two thirteen year-old working-class friends in Bradford seek fortune by getting involved with a local scrap dealer and criminal.Two thirteen year-old working-class friends in Bradford seek fortune by getting involved with a local scrap dealer and criminal.Two thirteen year-old working-class friends in Bradford seek fortune by getting involved with a local scrap dealer and criminal.
- Director
- Writers
- Clio Barnard
- Oscar Wilde(inspired by 'The Selfish Giant')
- Stars
- Director
- Writers
- Clio Barnard
- Oscar Wilde(inspired by 'The Selfish Giant')
- Stars
- Awards
- 12 wins & 21 nominations total
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- Railway Manas Railway Man
- (as Everal A. Walsh)
- Director
- Writers
- Clio Barnard
- Oscar Wilde(inspired by 'The Selfish Giant')
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
- Genre
- Certificate
- Not Rated
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaClio Barnard based Arbor and Swifty on two children she met while filming The Arbor (2010) who worked as scrappers.
- Quotes
Policeman: This is a formal interview under caution. Do you understand that, Fenton? Hey, do you understand?
Arbor: Yeah.
Policeman: A witness saw two youths burning railway or communications cable.
Michelle 'Shelly' Fenton: That's nowt to do with him.
Policeman: Cable theft is a very serious crime, Mrs. Fenton. Trespass on the railway is £1,000 fine.
Arbor: I ain't been on railway.
Policeman: Vandalism, endangering lives, maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
Michelle 'Shelly' Fenton: He's just a kid. He ain't nicked no cable. You're looking at wrong place.
Policeman: He is, as you say, Mrs. Fenton, a minor. There's unscrupulous people out there getting kids to do their dirty work so they don't get into trouble with the police themselves.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Episode #10.23 (2013)
- SoundtracksConspiracy
by Bill Brown
Much of the movie is hard to bear, yet it never drags, thanks to the momentum that writer and director Clio Barnard finds in the fable, and, above all, to the energy that she unleashes in her young leads, Conner Chapman and Shaun Thomas.
The first great fiction film to be released in 2014, Clio Barnard's second feature, "The Selfish Giant," is breathtakingly assured, ruggedly beautiful, moving and justifiably tragic.
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- May 2, 2014
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- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Bencil Dev
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $12,189
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,589
- Dec 22, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $1,114,027
- Runtime
- 1h 31min
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
- 2.35 : 1
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