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HowdyIn 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.
(soundbite of film, "The giver"). MERYL STREEP: (As Chief Elder) From great suffering came a solution -communities, serene, beautiful places where disorder became harmony.GREENE: Always good to have Kenneth Turan on the program. He reviews…
The Giver. This article is more than 11 years old. Review.Today it just looks like a low-rent mishmash of Divergent and The Hunger Games, recycling riffs from Logan’s Run with sets and costumes lifted from Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey…
The Giver. This article is more than 11 years old. Review.Jonas’s quest to broach the city limit clunkily labelled “The Boundary of Memory” rushes through terrain The Truman Show explored in greater emotional and philosophical depth, yet…
