The Hunger Games 2012
Directed by Gary Ross
- Science Fiction, Adventure, Action, Thriller
- 142 min
- PG-13
The world will be watching.
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.
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Character
Classical in form, grave, contemporary and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
Who loves it, who doesn't
54 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Ironists.
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Cast
- Jennifer LawrenceKatniss Everdeen
- Josh HutchersonPeeta Mellark
- Liam HemsworthGale Hawthorne
- Woody HarrelsonHaymitch Abernathy
- Elizabeth BanksEffie Trinket
- Lenny KravitzCinna
- Stanley TucciCaesar Flickerman
- Donald SutherlandPresident Coriolanus Snow
- Wes BentleySeneca Crane
- Toby JonesClaudius Templesmith
Crew
- Gary RossDirector
- Gary RossScreenplay
- Billy RayScreenplay
- Suzanne CollinsScreenplay
- Suzanne CollinsNovel
- Tom SternDirector of Photography
- James Newton HowardOriginal Music Composer
- Stephen MirrioneEditor
- Juliette WelflingEditor
- Christopher S. CappEditor
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Pairings
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