Giver, The

In a black-and-white, cookie-cutter world in which milquetoast citizens (Odeya Rush, Taylor Swift, Cameron Monaghan, et al.) are controlled by a no-nosense elder (Meryl Streep) and strict rules in this thought-provoking, heart-wrenching, captivating, 94-minute film based on Lois Lowry's novel, an inquisitive, sensitive 12-year-old boy (Brenton Thwaites), who lives with his family unit (Alexander SkarsgÄrd, Katie Holmes, and Emma Tremblay), is chosen to be the receiver of the community's memories from a weary teacher (Jeff Bridges) and then must decide what he will do with the painful knowledge.
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