The Giver

The Giver by Lois Lowry was one of my absolute favorite novels as a kid. My University did the play adaptation also written by Lowry. Many people found it to be boring and not well written. I'm wondering if the film will be similar.

MERYL STREEP plays the chief elder (scream), Alexander Skarsgard plays the father (swoon), and Jeff Bridges plays the Giver. Taylor Swift will be playing a character as well..not sure how to feel about this.

I'm very excited for this movie. Any thoughts?

Another $50 million train wreck of an adaptation, lovely

Well, I never read The Giver, but it never seemed to me like it would be anything like the hunger games. And let me tell you, this movie looks a LOT like the Hunger Games.

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Through the darkness of future past
The magician longs to see
One chants out between two worlds:
Fire walk with me.

I'd never even heard of this book until I joined Goodreads and it was everywhere. Is this some kind of set text in American schools? I think I'll read the book before I watch the film anyway.

I remember reading that book. I'm surprised they're making a movie on it. About time.

I had to read the book in school and f**king hated it. The movie looks pretty decent though.

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i think this is nice film

I guess my mind's eye has a problem with scope or something because I envisioned the world of "The Giver" to be much smaller than what I've seen in the trailer. I'll see it for Bridges in any case.

The aforementioned trailer, just because it hasn't been posted in here yet:



And yeah, I pictured a pretty small world while reading the book, too.

I'm interested in seeing the full length book version of "The Giver" Jeff Bridges and his family filmed on video years ago.