NEW YORK, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Actress Katie Holmes admits it was a tremendous challenge to play a mother in a world where emotion is medically controlled in the film The Giver.
Directed by Phillip Noyce and co-starring Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, Taylor Swift and Odeya Rush, The Giver is based on Lois Lowry's 1993 novel of the same name. Set in a society that has forsaken passion and freedom for order and peace, the film tells the story of what happens when teenager Jonas is selected to learn about life outside the community's boundaries. Holmes plays the stern woman who raised Jonas.