Never Let Me Go (screenplay)

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Never Let Me Go (screenplay) is a 2010 film script by Alex Garland adapting Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian novel about cloned children raised for organ donation.

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instanceOf film script
screenplay
adaptationFidelity close adaptation of source novel
adaptationOfGenre dystopian novel
adaptationScreenwriterPreviousWork 28 Days Later
surface form: 28 Days Later (screenplay)

Sunshine (1999 film)
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surface form: Never Let Me Go (2010 film)
approximateRuntimeOfFilm 103 minutes
basedOn Never Let Me Go (screenplay) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Never Let Me Go (novel)
basedOnWorkAuthor Kazuo Ishiguro
centralConflict characters struggle against predetermined fate as organ donors
characterRelationship love triangle between Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
distributor Searchlight Pictures
surface form: Fox Searchlight Pictures
ethicalIssue exploitation of clones for medical purposes
filmDirector Mark Romanek
filmLeadActor Andrew Garfield
Carey Mulligan
Keira Knightley
filmReleaseYear 2010
genre dystopian fiction
romantic drama
science fiction
language English
mainCharacter Ruth
Tommy
narrativePerspective first-person framing through Kathy
narrativeTheme ethics of biotechnology
human cloning
identity
loss of childhood
mortality
organ donation
notableElement focus on emotional and ethical implications over action
understated depiction of speculative science
plotFocus cloned children raised to become organ donors
productionCompany DNA Films
Film4 Productions
protagonist Kathy H.
screenplayFormat feature-length
screenwriter Alex Garland
setting alternate-history late 20th-century England
settingLocation Hailsham
surface form: Hailsham boarding school

The Cottages
structure nonlinear narrative with flashbacks
targetMedium cinema
tone introspective
melancholic
yearOfCompletion 2010

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Alex Garland notableWork Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
Alex Garland wroteScreenplayFor Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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Andrew Garfield notableWork Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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Andrew Garfield portrayedIn Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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Kazuo Ishiguro notableWork Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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Kazuo Ishiguro adaptationOfWork Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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Mark Romanek notableWork Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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Mark Romanek directed Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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Sally Hawkins notableWork Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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Adam Kimmel notableWork Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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Adam Kimmel workedOn Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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Carey Mulligan notableWork Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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Lydia Wilson notableWork Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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Barney Pilling workedOn Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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Andrew Macdonald notableWork Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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Allon Reich notableWork Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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Allon Reich producerOf Never Let Me Go (screenplay)
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