premise: The Giver is only a comedy.
hypothesis: The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel by Lois Lowry . The Giver is a 2014 American social science fiction film directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Jeff Bridges , Brenton Thwaites , Odeya Rush , Meryl Streep , Alexander Skarsgård , Katie Holmes and Cameron Monaghan .