The Giver
You can make things better.
An adaptation of the popular young adult novel of the same name, and set, similarly to The Hunger Games and Divergent, in a bleak future world where young people are born into a system set up years before by their forebears. In this society, conformity is valued above all else. A young man is selected to receive the Shared Knowledge about how they arrived at their environment from The Giver, and old man who has all this information in his head. As the young man learns of the past, he realises that it is vital that he escapes ,,, something that has never before been achieved by anyone.
97 minutes , Parental Guidance 10-12 (Violence) Drama, Sci-Fi.
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Credits
Cast
Jeff Bridges , Meryl Streep , Brenton Thwaites , Alexander Skarsgård , Katie Holmes , Odeya Rush , Cameron Monaghan , Taylor Swift
Director
Phillip Noyce
Screenplay Michael Mitnick, Robert B. Weide, from the book by Lois Lowry Music Marco Beltrami Cinematography Ross Emery Editing Barry Alexander Brown Sound formats Dolby Digital Soundtrack Available Made in 2014
Produced by As Is Productions, Tonik Productions, Walden Media, The Weinstein Company
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FPB Report (SA)
Genre Drama
Language None
Nudity None
Sex None
Violence Infrequent, mild to moderate
Prejudice None
Blasphemy None
Drug abuse None
Comments
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ScreenIt Report (USA)
Sex / Nudity Violence Blood / Gore / Gross Guns / Weapons Profanity
Alcohol / Drugs Smoking Disrespectful / Bad Attitude Imitative Behaviour Frightening / Tense Scenes Jump Scenes Tense Family Scenes Music (Scary/Tense) Music (Inappropriate) Topics to talk about
CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)
Suggested age limit Positive messages Positive role models
11 Violence Sex Language
Consumerism Drinking, drugs, smoking
Ratings
Scale (Max) 20
South African Media Cape Argus/The Star John DeFore 5
Die Burger Rozanne Els 10
International Media ReelViews (USA) James Berardinelli 15
ScreenIt (USA) C. Fuchs 8
Metacritic.com 33 critics 9
RottenTomatoes.com 114 critics 11
RottenTomatoes.com Tomatometer 7
Movie Review Query Engine (USA) MRQE critics 11
Internet (IMDB) 6877 Netizens 14
Average .. 50% 10
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