Box Elder

Box elder bugs are loud, scary looking, and dependent on group swarming. Yet, they're also completely harmless and extremely passive aggressive. Using this metaphor to address a generation that thinks big, talks fast, and threatens to change the world, Box Elder is an unapologetic portrait of a youth movement at odds with its own ambivalence, exposing a generation defined by privilege, potential, and self-induced paralysis. The film follows four best friends through their last years of college. Dependant on their parents financially, and on each other emotionally, they spend their time sleeping in, hanging out, and eating lots of sandwiches. Using break-ups and re-occurring scholastic failures to impose a quarter-life crisis, they take turns postponing responsibility, avoiding accountability, and looking for someone or something to substantiate their lives, all the while hedging their bets and mastering the art of treading water and getting away with it. It's a collegiate love letter.

Grosses

Domestic (100%)
$48,996
Summary Details
Distributor
Opening$3,188
1 theaters
Release DateMar 3, 2008
Running Time1 hr 29 min
GenresComedy
In Release1,034 days/147 weeks
Widest Release2 theaters
DateDOW RankDaily %± YD %± LW TheatersAvgTo DateDay
Oct 4Sunday61$18--93.4%1$18$46,646581
Oct 29Thursday59$20--93%1$20$47,511606
Oct 3Friday55$65--1$65$38,188215
Oct 23Friday59$76-73.5%-1$76$47,351600
Mar 23
Easter Sunday
Sunday58$92-52.8%-72.5%1$92$11,13421
Jul 5Saturday40$104--1$104$37,577125
Aug 2Saturday44$104--1$104$37,681153
Mar 20Thursday58$117-10.7%-65.1%1$117$10,06818
Mar 5Friday43$118--1$118$48,840733
Mar 19Wednesday59$131-35.1%-41%1$131$9,95117
Mar 25Tuesday58$133-7%-34.2%1$133$11,41023
Oct 24Saturday59$140+84.2%-1$140$47,491601
Mar 24Monday58$143+55.4%-9.5%1$143$11,27722
Mar 6Saturday44$156+32.2%-1$156$48,996734
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Mar 9Sunday50$1,395+26.6%-1$1,395$6,1257
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