I Kill Giants film review: Predictable tearjerker

Dubbed Nerd Queen by bullying schoolmates, Barbara enthusiastically embraces her status as an eccentric outsider 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.