Directed by Grear Patterson.
Starring Jack Irving, Ben Irving, Lily Gavin, Amalia Culp, Gabe Fazio, Alejandro Castro, Larry Miller, and Stella Schnabel.
SYNOPSIS:
A pair of players on a successful high school baseball team, the Giants, come of age in the American South.
In concept, everything about
Giants Being Lonely draws me in; it’s about people from different backgrounds (mostly poverty) with all sorts of rough edges (there is everything from teenage substance abuse to taboo affairs here), it’s a coming-of-age story that doesn’t water down the harshness of the real world, and it’s even grounded in the sport of baseball. Not major leagues mind you, but high school baseball with enough effective scenes showcasing the excitement of the game and the drive of its ambitious small-town players.
âGiants Being Lonelyâ Review: Indie Filmmaking Being Twee
The feature-directing debut of the artist Grear Patterson paints a hazy picture of adolescence.
Ben Irving in âGiants Being Lonely.âCredit.Gravitas Ventures
Giants Being Lonely
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Starting with its title, appropriated from a Carl Sandburg poem, âGiants Being Lonelyâ aims to capture something precious about adolescence and American beauty. (Unlike in Sandburg, the âGiantsâ in question are a high school baseball team.) But nothing concrete emerges from this haze of oblique editing and barely written scenes, acted by cast members who are not up to making the dialogue sound convincing or filling the voids left in place of their characters.