Storyline
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
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Cast
Common, Anthony Mackie, Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Tony Vaughn, Russell Hornsby, Brian Lafontaine, Marcia Wright, Karan Kendrick, Sabrina Carpenter, Algee Smith, Susan Santiago, Andrene Ward-Hammond, Rhonda Johnson Dents, Lamar Johnson, K.J. Apa, Megan Lawless, Al Mitchell, Iyana Halley, Dustin Lewis, Drew Starkey, Kai N. Ture, Issa Rae, Dominique Fishback, Rayven Symone Ferrell, TJ Wright, Tanya Christiansen, Heaven Hightower, Myles Evans, Hassan Welch, Maxwell Cardona
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Reviews
91
If Tillman ties it all together a little neatly, he’s already served up a message that feels too fresh and important to dismiss — not of hate but of hope, and faith that even if sharing these stories can’t magically fix what’s broken, telling them still matters.
90
Without compromising the complexity of the issues raised, or condescending to the youth of its protagonists, The Hate U Give strides with absorbing, intelligent certainty through the desperately dangerous, uneven terrain of racially divided America.
83
It’s a film that contains multitudes, and only asks for a world willing to do the same.
83
This is a film that’s tense from its earliest moments and tragic shortly thereafter, but never does it feel gratuitously punishing.
80
This is mass-market entertainment with a radical bent, a loudspeaker blast of a teen movie.
