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Origin (2023)

PG-1312/08/2023Drama2h 21m

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

    Isabel Wilkerson

  2. Cast 1

    Niecy Nash-Betts

    Marion Wilkerson

  3. Cast 1

    Jon Bernthal

    Brett Hamilton

  4. Cast 1

    Emily Yancy

    Ruby Wilkerson

  5. Cast 1

    Finn Wittrock

    August Landmesser

  6. Cast 1

    Victoria Pedretti

    Irma Eckler

  7. Cast 1

    Jasmine Cephas Jones

    Elizabeth Davis

  8. Cast 1

    Isha Blaaker

    Allison Davis

  9. Cast 1

    Vera Farmiga

    Kate Medina

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 a more considered and less reactionary appraisal of race relations following the murder of a young black man who just happened to be in the wrong place (a white neighbourhood) at the wrong time. The a...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$38,000,000.00

Revenue $4,474,931.00

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