Your birth year
2006
The Hunger Games
2012
You're 6 years older than The Hunger Games
It's from 2012, when you were 6.
- Director
- Gary Ross
- Genre
- Sci-fi / dystopia
- Star
- Jennifer Lawrence
- Released
- 2012
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About
As of 2026, it's 14 years old.
The Hunger Games launched the young-adult dystopia boom in 2012, following a teenage girl who volunteers for a televised fight-to-the-death to save her sister and accidentally becomes the spark of a revolution. Sharp, brutal, and led by a star-making Jennifer Lawrence, it took its grim premise seriously.
The three-finger salute, 'may the odds be ever in your favor,' and Katniss's mockingjay became genuine cultural symbols.
Tense, sharp, and franchise-launching, The Hunger Games is the dystopia that made a teenage archer the face of rebellion and kicked off a YA gold rush.
