2014 - Divergent
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Directed by: Neil Burger Written by: Evan Daugherty, Vanessa Taylor Produced by: Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Pouya Shabazian Production year: 2013 Original release: March 18, 2014 Running time: 2 hours, 19 minutes Other cast: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet Misc: IMDB | Amazon | iTunes |
In a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she’s Divergent and won’t fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it’s too late.
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Trivia
- In The Fault in Our Stars (2014), Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort play boyfriend and girlfriend, while in Divergent, they play siblings.
- This is the first film where Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort star together. The first could have been Carrie (2013) if Woodley hadn’t turned down the part of Carrie White. Elgort played the Tommy Ross, the potential love interest, in the film. A year later, they were both cast in The Fault in Our Stars (2014).
- Ansel Elgort says to Shailene Woodley ‘what if she had been blind or an amputee’ when talking about helping a woman with her parcels. In Fault in Our Stars, Elgort is an amputee and he and Woodley have a blind friend.
Character Quotes
- Caleb Prior: You’re nervous, aren’t you?
Beatrice ‘Tris’ Prior: Why would I be nervous? We just decide the rest of our lives.


