The Hate U Give
Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.
15 September 1973, Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands
11 May 1999, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, USA
November 01, 2018
The Hate U Give is equally an American race relations study and coming-of-age story, interweaving the two in indivisible fashion.
November 01, 2018
The Hate U Give is an important film; it understands the suffering poor communities go through, and how economic circumstances can enflame racial tensions.
October 31, 2018
The story is eventful and tempestuous, and Amandla Stenberg (playing Starr) is an ideal teen-drama lead - radiant yet wholly believable.
November 02, 2018
Amandla Stenberg is a relevation in this powerful and relevant, must-see drama. [Full review in Spanish]
October 12, 2018
The filmmakers understand their characters so thoroughly that the insights seem to grow organically from their experiences. This is American studio filmmaking at its finest.
November 02, 2018
The brilliance of the construction of the is how it forces us to see everything through Starr's eyes
October 12, 2018
It's so gripping to watch-as well as being, in places, just delightfully funny-that you never feel you're being preached to. It picks you up in one place and sets you down in another.
October 21, 2018
The rare racial drama that will detonate the complacency of even those who are drawn to see it. It's that good, that searching, that fierce in its humanity.
November 01, 2018
In dealing with all of it, the book character finds her confidence and her voice. But the movie version of The Hate U Give leaves me unsure that its makers ever found theirs.
October 12, 2018
Tillman has an excellent touch for the quietly impactful scenes with Starr and her family, as well as the news footage-style depictions of marches and protests that go sideways...
October 12, 2018
The movie is both honest and humane, as well as hopeful.
October 22, 2018
While the film simplifies the story somewhat, it never loses its heart, the brilliant emerging of Starr into her own voice and pride in the community that lifts her up.
