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.
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Date | Rank | Weekend | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Avg | To Date | Weekend |
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Dec 19-21 | 78 | $990 | - | 2 | - | $495 | $44,442 | 42 |
May 16-18 | 86 | $6,400 | - | 1 | - | $6,400 | $32,307 | 11 |
Apr 11-13 | 94 | $5,537 | +75.8% | 1 | - | $5,537 | $23,321 | 6 |
Mar 7-9 | 94 | $3,188 | - | 1 | - | $3,188 | $6,125 | 1 |
Apr 4-6 | 112 | $3,150 | +72.3% | 1 | - | $3,150 | $17,784 | 5 |
Mar 28-30 | 111 | $1,828 | +71.5% | 1 | - | $1,828 | $13,434 | 4 |
Mar 14-16 | 112 | $1,668 | -47.7% | 1 | - | $1,668 | $9,460 | 2 |
May 23-25 | 102 | $1,600 | -75% | 1 | - | $1,600 | $37,125 | 12 |
May 23-26 Memorial Day wknd | 102 | $1,600 | - | 1 | - | $1,600 | $37,125 | - |
Nov 14-16 | 105 | $1,250 | - | 1 | - | $1,250 | $41,886 | 37 |
Oct 24-26 | 112 | $1,248 | +31.4% | 1 | - | $1,248 | $40,386 | 34 |
Mar 21-24 Easter wknd | 58 | $1,209 | - | 1 | - | $1,209 | $11,277 | - |
Mar 21-23 | 112 | $1,066 | -36.1% | 1 | - | $1,066 | $11,134 | 3 |
Oct 17-19 | 116 | $950 | - | 1 | - | $950 | $39,138 | 33 |
Mar 6-8 | 101 | $939 | - | 1 | - | $939 | $45,761 | 53 |
Apr 25-27 | 129 | $750 | - | 1 | - | $750 | $24,071 | 8 |
Nov 6-8 | 121 | $510 | - | 1 | - | $510 | $48,327 | 88 |
Sep 19-21 | 125 | $442 | - | 1 | - | $442 | $38,123 | 29 |
Jun 6-8 | 118 | $348 | - | 1 | - | $348 | $37,473 | 14 |
May 2-4 | 132 | $326 | -56.5% | 1 | - | $326 | $25,232 | 9 |
Mar 5-7 | 100 | $274 | - | 1 | - | $274 | $48,996 | 105 |
Sep 25-27 | 134 | $273 | - | 1 | - | $273 | $46,628 | 82 |
Oct 23-25 | 126 | $216 | - | 1 | - | $216 | $47,491 | 86 |
Aug 1-3 | 121 | $104 | - | 1 | - | $104 | $37,681 | 22 |
Jul 4-6 | 116 | $104 | - | 1 | - | $104 | $37,577 | 18 |
Oct 3-5 | 126 | $65 | - | 1 | - | $65 | $38,188 | 31 |
Oct 2-4 | 130 | $18 | -93.4% | 1 | - | $18 | $46,646 | 83 |