‘The Giver’ Video: Full LA Conference with Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes, Brenton Thwaites, More Desde Hollywood attended the Los Angeles press conference for “The Giver” (in theaters August 15). Watch Phillip Noyce, Cameron Monaghan, Odeya Rush, Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes, and more talking about the film adaptation of the popular novel. The haunting story of THE GIVER centers on Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.