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The Thinning
2016
· Movie
· 84 min
D
MEANRANK
56/100
Every rating
41–64
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Letterboxd on 41, highest is AlloCiné on 64.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In a dystopian future where population control is enforced by a mandatory academic test, failure means execution. Two students from different social strata find their fates intertwined when they uncover a conspiracy that the test results are being manipulated by the government for a sinister purpose. They must expose the truth before they become the next victims of the system.
Details
- Director
- Michael J. Gallagher
- Writers
- Michael J. Gallagher, Steve Greene
- Released
- 12 October 2016
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Budget
- $100.0K
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