Tsotsi

2005 94 min Crime, Drama

A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.

budget $3,000,000 earnings $9,891,303 return 3.3x

director Gavin Hood

writer Gavin Hood