The Hate U Give

Name: The Hate U Give
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: October 5, 2018
Duration: 133 min
Rating: 81
Cast: Algee Smith, Amandla Stenberg, Anthony Mackie, Common, Dominique Fishback

2018

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Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: October 5, 2018 | PG-13

Starring: Algee Smith, Amandla Stenberg, Anthony Mackie, Common, Dominique Fishback, Drew Starkey, Issa Rae, Iyana Halley, K.J. Apa, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, Sabrina Carpenter

Summary: Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds: the poor, mostly black, neighborhood where she lives and the rich, mostly white, prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facingStarr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds: the poor, mostly black, neighborhood where she lives and the rich, mostly white, prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.… Expand

Director: George Tillman Jr

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 133 min

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Cary Darling

Oct 3, 2018

A life-affirming rebuttal to apathy, despair and surrender. It’s also one of the year’s most important films. Read full review

Emily Yoshida

Oct 5, 2018

The how of Tillman, Mabry, and Wells’s telling distinguishes their story. The Hate U Give should be an epic, and it is: Yes, it’s a teen melodrama, but it’s also an elegantly constructed piece of world-building, a love story, a family history, a sociological spiderweb of cause and effect of the hate referenced in the Tupac-coined titled. If this is what the next wave of YA adaptation will feel like, we are in a good place. Read full review

Lindsey Bahr

Oct 11, 2018

For as naturalistic and real as The Hate U Give is, it goes off the rails just a little bit at the climax to make its grand point about the effect of this kind of climate on innocents, but there is too much heart here to really nitpick at a little hyperbole. Read full review

The Guardian Gwilym Mumford

Sep 10, 2018

This is mass-market entertainment with a radical bent, a loudspeaker blast of a teen movie. Read full review

Sam Adams

Oct 11, 2018

The movie’s most profound performance isn’t Stenberg’s, although their emotional lucidity makes them a good proxy for its intended young adult audience, but Hornsby’s, as a father fighting to prepare his children for a world in which the people who are supposed to protect them can be a profound threat. Read full review

Oliver Jones

Oct 9, 2018

Fortunately, it is a nuanced, intense and utterly involving look at how racist policies shape judicial and economic outcomes for families like the Carters, and it doesn’t dumb things down one bit. Read full review

Keith Watson

Sep 29, 2018

The film lays out the complexities of contemporary race relations with a deliberateness that frequently edges over into didacticism. Read full review

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sweed1234

May 31, 2020

Amazing film especially with everything going on right now. Watch the movie.

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markydisco

Oct 24, 2018

Easily one of the most important films I've seen. It's sad that in 2018, right here right now, this film and the subject matter is as relevant as ever. After seeing it, I felt very similar to the way I felt after seeing the 2004 film "Crash". Very well done, thought provoking, heartbreaking,Easily one of the most important films I've seen. It's sad that in 2018, right here right now, this film and the subject matter is as relevant as ever. After seeing it, I felt very similar to the way I felt after seeing the 2004 film "Crash". Very well done, thought provoking, heartbreaking, and something that you won't be able to forget. Highly recommended for anyone who is concerned about the current state of affairs on this planet!… Expand

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jaredwallace91

Oct 13, 2018

One of the most life-affirming movies I have ever seen. It is required viewing for anyone that calls themselves American.

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demarderozan

May 10, 2022

I have watched this movie three times and every time I have pointed out something new and it has made me think every single time. If there were such thing as a book club for movies, this would be my first pick.

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Itsmaya

Oct 1, 2021

This film really hits you, the watching is not easy at all and that is exactly what makes this film so good, compelling and real!
The acting is on point especially from Amanda Sternberg (AKA starr with two R's) who just nailed the part!
The story moves just in the right pace and the filmThis film really hits you, the watching is not easy at all and that is exactly what makes this film so good, compelling and real!
The acting is on point especially from Amanda Sternberg (AKA starr with two R's) who just nailed the part!
The story moves just in the right pace and the film goes by without you noticing how the time went...
Overall an excellent film that will make your heart come out but at the same time I don't think you could watch it again... in the best possible way...… Expand

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DawdlingPoet

Nov 24, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is by no means a bad film - it does well at making the necessary points known and would be a good watch for adolescents to consider the way the authorities have mis-judged situations etc. It isn't what I think of as an entirely memorable film and while the performances are good and the story decent, its no more than a fairly decent film. I felt one or two parts of the plot were predictable and its not the most impactful film I've ever seen but maybe to expect that would be expecting a bit much(?!). Overall its worth seeing if the story intrigues you, so yes, I'd recommend it.… Expand

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finnmccool1985

Oct 24, 2018

Oh boy. YA fiction. The place that's been the most heavily segregated, divided, and marginalized, ironically, by far lefties claiming diversity. Just look at their reviews- they say the film wont get the attention it deserves- then look at the newspaper/publication reviews. The media has aOh boy. YA fiction. The place that's been the most heavily segregated, divided, and marginalized, ironically, by far lefties claiming diversity. Just look at their reviews- they say the film wont get the attention it deserves- then look at the newspaper/publication reviews. The media has a heavy liberal bias (except for a small few, like Fox), and that liberal bias has now become puritanical in its reviews of films and all art, claiming moral truth, as with this film/book and others- the more intersectionally self-righteous and didactic, the more 'factual,' therefore the better the review- especially right around election time. And its not even going to work- people of all types hate having this stuff rammed down their throat- you cant force diversity and creativity. Freethinking comes from being liberal minded, not narrow minded. Period.… Expand

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