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Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games draws a bow and arrow in a green forest, wearing a brown jacket with a quiver of arrows on her back. Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket, wearing a bright pink outfit and large floral headpiece, stands beside Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, who looks serious and holds a microphone, in The Hunger Games.
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Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games draws a bow and arrow in a green forest, wearing a brown jacket with a quiver of arrows on her back.
The Hunger Games Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games (2012).

The 2012 film The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross, is based on Suzanne Collins's young adult novel of the same name. The story is set in Panem, a dystopian nation on the former continent of North America, where the wealthy Capitol oppresses 13 poorer districts.12

To punish the districts and assert control, the Capitol hosts the annual Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death between two tributes, a boy and a girl, from each district. The protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, volunteers for the 74th Hunger Games to save her younger sister. The film, and the book series, explore themes of power, violence, media manipulation, and authoritarianism, while also telling a coming-of-age story with a romantic subplot. The film was a commercial success and led to several sequels.1

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