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6.6In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Cast
- Jeff Bridges as The Giver
- Meryl Streep as Chief Elder
- Brenton Thwaites as Jonas
- Alexander Skarsgård as Father
- Katie Holmes as Mother
- Odeya Rush as Fiona
Themes
- new love
- based on novel or book
- dystopia
- anti conformity
- memory
- alternative reality
- color
- 2040s
- based on young adult novel
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Ratings
IMDb
6.4/10
129,938 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
34%
Metacritic
47/100
- Year
- 2014
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 3 wins & 6 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Phillip Noyce
- Screenplay by
- Michael Mitnick Robert B. Weide
- Based on
- The Giver , by Lois Lowry
- Produced by
- Nikki Silver Jeff Bridges Neil Koenigsberg
- Starring
- Jeff Bridges Meryl Streep Brenton Thwaites Alexander Skarsgård Katie Holmes Taylor Swift Cameron Monaghan Odeya Rush Emma Tremblay
- Cinematography
- Ross Emery
- Edited by
- Barry Alexander Brown
- Music by
- Marco Beltrami
- Production company
- Walden Media
- Distributed by
- The Weinstein Company
- Release dates
- August 11, 2014 ( 2014-08-11 ) ( Ziegfeld Theatre ) August 15, 2014 ( 2014-08-15 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 97 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $25 million
- Box office
- $67 million
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Encyclopedic overview
The Giver is a 2014 American dystopian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Jeff Bridges, Brenton Thwaites, Odeya Rush, Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgård, Katie Holmes, Cameron Monaghan, Taylor Swift, and Emma Tremblay. The film is based on the 1993 young adult novel by Lois Lowry. The Giver premiered on August 11, 2014, was released theatrically in the United States on August 15, 2014 and received a People's Choice Award nomination for "Favorite Dramatic Movie".
Plot
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