I Kill Giants film review: Predictable tearjerker
I KILL GIANTS may be entirely predictable but it does have a terrific central character in Barbara, played by Madison Wolfe.
Dubbed Nerd Queen by bullying schoolmates, Barbara enthusiastically embraces her status as an eccentric outsider in a small American coastal town.
I Kill Giants is set in a small American coastal town
But inevitably her thick-skinned defiance is a defence against a cruel world.
Friendly new girl Sophie (Sydney Wade) and saintly school psychologist Mrs Molle (Zoe Saldana) are determined to crack her tough exterior and reach her lost soul in an imaginative coming-of-age drama that degenerates into a full-blown tearjerker.