This weekend’s big release, “The Giver” is the big-screen adaptation of the young adult novel from 1993. The book was written for a younger audience, but is the movie OK for the same group?
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“The Giver” takes place in a world without memories. If only audiences could enter that realm for 97 minutes so that the movie wouldn’t feel so very familiar in the wake of other young adult adaptations ranging from “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent” to “Ender’s Game” and next month’s “The Maze Runner.”