The Giver

2014 "Search for truth. Find freedom."
6.4| 1h37m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 15 August 2014 Released
Producted By: The Weinstein Company
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://thegiverfilm.com/
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In 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.

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Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks
Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
MovieGeekTonyTee For me, who already had some years of life behind me, the movie was almost a bit too cautious. I also recognized many aspects of other films :'Pleasantville', 'THX-1138', 'Brazil' and 'The Matrix'. It seemed to me like a lite version of' '1984' or 'Brave new world' in parts. For young people today, however, who do not yet have the background knowledge of the last generation, the film is perhaps a good introduction to "critical thinking". In an era where reading books seems to become increasingly unattractive, this may be a good option. But as one of the pre-reviewers wrote, I also noticed the inconsistency of the behaviour of the film characters. Many of the so-called rules have been broken far too often for the characters to be taken from their faithfulness to the rules. And what unfortunately bothered me most was the almost uninterrupted background music. As 'philosophical' entry for young people, the film is okay. For adults there is 'Blade Runner'.
s-16089 The book is significantly different from the book in one they changed the movie into more of a romance. The chief of elders is antagonist, Asher is more mature and more serious,And fiona starts have feelings, And added a whole bunch of random scenes. I understand that they changed up the movie to be more dramatic and attract the young adult and tween audiences but they could have been better in my opinion. I rate it a 5.
larryandrosa-37982 I had expected a variation and moral similar to George Orwell's "1984" but what I ended up waiting for was a mumbling Dennis Quaid as the, to be looked up to know it all. I can suspend belief and imagine, far away places but this show took it to it's very hard to imagine that only hate and conformity exists. I may have heard, "Yeah that's the point" but when I had a teacher friend tell me that's what's being read in a different classroom I was shocked. Reality is that we all go through trials of different sort as children with allowances to grow,sing, love, etc. We faced bullying,rivalries, fights, etc. but found a way to learn and grow and get over it.How many movies, or books portray "Infanticide" to make a point? Only the desperate. The scene of this actually taking place with the father using lethal injection then disposing the baby down a trash chute is reprehensible. Oh the classroom where it was taught also had LD kids in attendance. Given recent atrocities like "Sandy Hook", the Church shootings in Texas, children were harmed or murdered. Year's ago I can't recall this happening for real or in print. To profit on any idea of harming newborns,this was the most vile and to use this to sensationalize a story? Is there someone "out there" seeing this whom would imitate, or murder, rather then seek a safe place for a newborn? I doubt teenagers (yet) have the capacity to understand this attempt at being "Highbrow" and should've been scrapped to begin with, and not emulate the attitude this story ...tries to convey.
musica-83078 This movie has no action what so ever. There is nothing interesting about it anyway Like no action No anything it just people talking and the plot is stupid anyway like this world where u have to walk up like 200 stories and eat. there is no problem that triggers all the action in this story