The Giver PG-13
Search for truth. Find freedom.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 25, 2014
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: Twc
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Skarsgård & Katie Holmes | |
Performer: | Cameron Monaghan, Taylor Swift & Odeya Rush | |
Directed by | Phillip Noyce | |
Edited by | Barry Alexander Brown | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Mitnick & Robert B. Weide | |
Composition by | Marco Beltrami | |
Director of Photography: | Ross Emery |
Entertainment Reviews:
Noyce tries to thread the needle by hewing close to his source material while peppering in some grander-scale sci-fi business to keep things moving. It doesn't remotely work.
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The Atlantic
[H]andsomely directed by Phillip Noyce and featuring an appealing, sure-footed cast of emerging and veteran actors…
Washington Post
Yet in its execution, the whole lacks the courage of its convictions with no sign of the drama necessary to make it as thought-provoking it pretends to be.
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Times of Malta
Rating: 3/5 --
The allegorical framework starts to look contrived, and things feel far too rushed and glib after an involving start.
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The Age (Australia)
Rating: 2/5 --
Although the film has a few merits, including the deft use of a colour motif that harks back to Oz, a dull and predictable ending does nothing to help it overall: the studio clearly has its fingers crossed for yet another series.
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One Room With A View
Rating: 2/5 --
While Thwaites has visual appeal, he struggles to give us the layered, conflicted hero this film needs. Without it, The Giver is little more than stylish but saccharine entertainment for teens.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 3/5 --
It makes for one of this overcrowded field's stronger entries, refusing to redact entirely the baby-slaying weirdness that permits Lois Lowry's source novel its multiplicity of grown-up readings ...
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Guardian
Product Description:
A young man living in a future where complacency is valued above all else discovers the sinister secrets that hold his fragile society together after being selected to become the Receiver of Memory in this adaptation of author Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning young-adult novel. Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) was raised to believe that conformity is the key to contentment. The society Jonas lives in is a peaceful one, in large part because their collective memories have been entrusted to the Giver (Jeff Bridges). A mysterious yet seemingly benevolent figure, the Giver is the sole guardian of the community's dark and hidden history. When that history is revealed to Jonas over the course of his illuminating sessions with the Giver, the young man learns that the wisdom he now holds could dictate the fate of the entire society. Later, as the weight of that responsibility becomes too great a burden for Jonas to bear, he realizes that his only hope of saving the ones he loves most is to flee. Unfortunately for Jonas and perhaps his entire world, every previous attempt to escape has ended in failure. Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgård, and Katie Holmes star in a film from director Phillip Noyce (RABBIT-PROOF FENCE, THE QUIET AMERICAN).
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- Sales Rank: 47,847
- UPC: 013132617459
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