Katie Holmes Joins 'The Giver' as Brenton Thwaites' Mother

Katie Holmes lets out a big smile while taking a walk around town with some gal pals on Thursday afternoon (September 26) in New York City.

The 34-year-old actress will be joining the star-studded cast of the upcoming film The Giver, based on the best-selling novel, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The film is about “a young boy (Brenton Thwaites) who is selected for his life service as the Receiver of Memories and works with The Giver (Jeff Bridges), an old man who teaches the boy to use his unique gifts of the senses. Meryl Streep is the society’s Chief Elder, an authoritative and antagonistic woman who assigns the young their tasks.”

Katie is playing the mother of the boy, a “strict obeyer of the laws that govern what is described as an antiseptic society.”

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