Hunger Games

(2012) dir Gary Ross w/Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz, Elizabeth Banks, Donald Sutherland [142 min; DCP]
In a future North America, the nation Panem has been split into twelve districts, each in service to the central, upper class Capital. The districts are required to send two ‘tributes’ each year to compete in a deadly game but, after 75 years of repression, the time is ripe for change.