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Origin
Origin

Origin

2023 141 min ★ 6.2 Drama, History

While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resilience.

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Cast

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Isabel Wilkerson

Niecy Nash

Niecy Nash

Marion Wilkerson

Jon Bernthal

Jon Bernthal

Brett Hamilton

Emily Yancy

Emily Yancy

Ruby Wilkerson

Finn Wittrock

Finn Wittrock

August Landmesser

Victoria Pedretti

Victoria Pedretti

Irma Eckler

Jasmine Cephas Jones

Jasmine Cephas Jones

Elizabeth Davis

Isha Blaaker

Isha Blaaker

Allison Davis

Vera Farmiga

Vera Farmiga

Kate Medina

Audra McDonald

Audra McDonald

Miss Hale

Details

Director

Ava DuVernay

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$38,000,000

Revenue

$4,474,931

Production

ARRAY Filmworks

Reviews

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Manuel São Bento

September 8, 2023

★ 7/10

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://fandomwire.com/origin-venice-film-festival-review-a-must-see-educational-story/ "Origin brilliantly transposes the pillars of caste from Isabel Wilkerson's book to the big screen through an incredibly revealing, genuinely fascinating narrative, despite becoming clear that the source material is better suited to a documentary. The exceptionally human perform...

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CinemaSerf

March 14, 2024

★ 7/10

The acting is all really quite adequate here, but it's not really that important to the fascinating underlying premiss that underpins the theory that race, in itself, might not be the reasons for the hierarchical nature of a society that always manages to create sub-classes. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor offers her own engaging perspective on author Isabel Wilkerson who is invited by a publisher to offer ...

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Brent Marchant

March 17, 2024

★ 8/10

Those who believe that institutionalized systemic racism is fundamentally an American problem should probably give a serious look to this latest offering from writer-director Ava DuVernay, best known for the superb historical drama, “Selma” (2014). Based on the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by best-selling author Isabel Wilkerson, the film examines how organic prejudices are actually ...

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swiewior

January 3, 2025

★ 4/10

A missed opportunity. While I agree with the most but not everything that was stated in the movie, I can't understand why it failed to find obvious similarities to segregation based on religion. Am I the only one who sees forbidding marriage between religions the same as forbidding interracial marriagies? I think it was convenient to find funds for this movie in times of woke movement. The inte...

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