Synopsis
Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the "boys' law" in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the gang. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection. Realizing this sort of lifestyle will never result in the freedom and independence she truly desires, she finally decides to take matters into her own hands.
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Movie Details
| Australia Releases: |
August 13th, 2015 (Limited), released as Girlhood |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Running Time: |
112 minutes |
| Keywords: |
Coming of Age, Dysfunctional Family, Gangs, Afro-French |
| Source: | Original Screenplay |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Contemporary Fiction |
| Production/Financing Companies: |
Hold Up Films & Productions, Lilies Films, Arte France Cinema, CNC, Foods Images de la Diversity, Agence Nationale pour la Cohesion Sociale et l’Egalite des Chances |
| Production Countries: |
France |
| Languages: |
French |
November 25th, 2015
Awards Season begins with the Independent Spirit Awards nominations. There were definitely some surprise nominees this year, but that also meant there were some unfortunate snubs as well. The overall leader was Carol, which just opened this past weekend. This is great timing and should help its box office numbers, as well as its chances throughout Awards Season. Its six nominations were one ahead of Beasts of No Nation and Spotlight. (One of Spotlight's was the Robert Altman Award, which has no nominations, just one winner.)
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May 19th, 2015
The home market is a lot stronger than it has been in weeks, but that is almost entirely due to the release of American Sniper on DVD and Blu-ray Combo Pack. On the other hand, it is not the best release on this week's list. There were many of contenders for Pick of the Week, including Girlhood and Limelight, but in the end I went with Orange Is the New Black: Season 2.
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February 3rd, 2015
Timbuktu was the only film in the $10,000 club this weekend earning an estimated average of $12,500 in four theaters. Running Man came close with an average of $9,246 in 20 theaters. Impressively, Game Of Thrones: The IMAX Experience earned 15th place on the overall chart with $1.46 million in just over 200 theaters for an average of $7,142. This is enough to expect this to happen again, but I don't know if it will be a regular thing.
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January 30th, 2015
The list is a little shorter than usual, not because there are few limited releases coming out this week, but because we have a spotlight review for one of them. So to keep things a little more manageable, I'm going to focus on films that are either earning great reviews, or that earned some pre-release buzz. Speaking of great reviews, Timbuktu is living up to its Oscar nomination with 97% positive reviews. Also coming out this week are the Oscar Nominated Shorts, so fans of short films should rush out to theaters.
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Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.
Weekend Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
|---|
| 2015/08/14 |
30 |
$10,268 |
|
5 |
$2,054 |
$10,268 |
1 |
| 2015/08/21 |
40 |
$5,487 |
-47% |
5 |
$1,097 |
$19,907 |
2 |
| 2015/08/28 |
48 |
$2,158 |
-61% |
2 |
$1,079 |
$24,056 |
3 |
| 2015/09/04 |
60 |
$1,170 |
-46% |
2 |
$585 |
$25,522 |
4 |
| 2015/09/11 |
69 |
$328 |
-72% |
2 |
$164 |
$26,818 |
5 |
| 2015/09/25 |
68 |
$537 |
|
1 |
$537 |
$27,326 |
7 |
| 2015/10/02 |
71 |
$266 |
-50% |
1 |
$266 |
$27,634 |
8 |
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