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The Giver

Name: The Giver
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Released: 2014-08-13
Duration: 97 min
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Skarsgård, Katie Holmes

Hollywood20141h 37mEnglishTop 72% of Hollywood budgets

30Standing

884th of 1,098 in Hollywood

Reported gross: 29
Return on budget: 43
Audience rating: 33
Momentum: 19

Out-grossed 29% of Hollywood releases with reported figures ($67M).
Returned 2.7× its budget, against an industry median of 3.1×.
Momentum in the 19th percentile.
Audience rating 6.6 from 4,718 votes, the 33rd percentile.

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Cost: $25M
Took: $67M

Against a Hollywood median of 3.1×, so this one returned 0.9 times what a typical release there does.

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The picture

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.

Released: 13 August 2014
Runtime: 1h 37m
Language: English
Industry: Hollywood

Top billedAll 24 credits

Made by

Director: Phillip Noyce
Screenplay: Michael Mitnick, Robert B. Weide
Original Music Composer: Marco Beltrami
Director of Photography: Ross Emery
Producer: Jeff Bridges, Neil Koenigsberg, Nikki Silver, Genevieve Hofmeyr

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