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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Jeffrey Wright, Natalie Dormer, and Donald Sutherland Directed by: Francis Lawrence Screenplay by: Peter Craig and Danny Strong Based on the novel by Suzanne Collins     Goodness, that's a lot of people in this cast!     The Hunger Games themselves may not be an annual tradition, but it now seems as if film releases based on the series has become one.     At the end of the last movie, Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) destroyed the arena where the 75th Hunger Games, otherwise known as the Quarter Quell, took place.  The resistance in District 13, thought to be destroyed in the original rebellion, rescued her and a few of the other tributes from the games, but not all of them.  Now in District 13, it is up to former game master, Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman)...