The Maze Runner(2014)

PG-13
1h 53m

Release Date: Sep 19, 2014 | Wide

66%
68%
A-
6.8

Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow "runners" for a shot at escape.

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Releases

Original Release | Sep 19, 2014

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$32,512,804
Total US & Canada:
$102,427,862
Total International
$245,891,999
Total Worldwide:
$348,319,861

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Director & Top Cast

Wes Ball
Director

Dylan O’Brien
Thomas

Kaya Scodelario
Teresa

Will Poulter
Gally

Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Newt

Aml Ameen
Alby

Ki Hong Lee

Minho

Blake Cooper

Chuck

Dexter Darden

Frypan

Chris Sheffield

Ben

Joe Adler

Zart

Alexander Flores

Winston

Jacob Latimore

Jeff

Randall D. Cunningham

Clint

Patricia Clarkson

Ava Paige

Don McManus

Masked Man

Michael Bow

Glader

Jerry Clark

Glader

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital,Datasat,Dolby Atmos,SDDS,Auro 11.1,Dolby Surround 7.1

Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States,United Kingdom

Language: English

Summaries

Plot Summary

A boy wakes up inside a rusty elevator with no memory of who he is. He is greeted by a group of boys in a large grassy area called The Glade. It is surrounded by tall, stone walls. Beyond its wall is a vast maze. Every month, a new boy and supplies arrive in the elevator.The group leader is Alby (Aml Ameen) who tells the boy that he will soon remember his name. Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), second in command, explains that the surrounding Maze is the only way out of the Glade. During the day, designated Runners search for an escape route, returning before nightfall when the Maze entrance closes. No one has ever survived a night in the Maze. Shortly after the boy tries to leave the Glade by entering the Maze but is stopped by Gally. Newt tells the boy that the people in the Glade have been trying to find a way out of the Maze for 3 years now. The Maze changes shape every night which makes it difficult for the Runners to track & find an escape route.The boy gets in a fight with Gally (Will Poulter) and suddenly remembers that his name is Thomas (Dylan O'Brien). Later, Thomas is attacked by Ben (Chris Sheffield), a Runner who was stung by a Griever, a deadly techno-organic creature that roams the maze at night. Ben is forced into the Maze by all the other occupants of the Glade, to die as his infection is contagious & if Ben is allowed to stay in the Glade, he will end up killing many more. Newt tells Thomas that Alby was the first person to arrive in the Glade & spent a full month alone, before he saw another person coming thru the elevator.Minho, a Runner, and Alby attempt to retrace Ben's steps in the maze, but Alby is stung. Minho appears at dusk, dragging Alby, but they are unable to reach the entrance before it closes. Thomas runs into the maze to help. All three survive the night, with Thomas killing a Griever by trapping it in the shifting boulders of the Maze. They return to the Glade the next day with Alby, astonishing the other boys.Gally is upset that Thomas may have jeopardized the fragile peace between the boys and the Grievers, but Newt makes Thomas a Runner. Thomas, Minho and a few others go into the maze. They remove a beeping mechanical device from inside the dead Griever's corpse. It is numbered to correspond to a certain section in the maze. The next morning, a girl arrives in the elevator. She apparently recognizes Thomas; however, Thomas does not know her. A note says she is the final one that will be sent. The girl, named Teresa (Kaya Scodelario), carries two syringes filled with a mysterious substance. One is used on Alby, and he gradually recovers from the Griever sting and begins regaining his memories. He tells Thomas that he remembers him & that he was "their" favorite. He wonders why Thomas was sent down to the Glade in the first place and laments that none of them were going to leave alive.Teresa recounts her dreams to Thomas & they are exactly the same & turns out not to be dreams at all. They both remember being under water with some sort of procedure being performed on them, with a woman in the background saying, "wicked is good". Minho shows Thomas a map-model of the Maze he has built. He says that he himself has explored every inch of the Maze & that there is no way out. But with the mechanical device, they may be able to find an escape route. Minho and Thomas venture back into the maze and discover a possible way out, but they barely make it back to the Glade.That night, the wall remains open, and a wave of Grievers pour in. Alby and many others are attacked & taken away. The Grievers retreat only after they take away Alby. Thomas stabs himself in the leg with a severed stinger (& cured by the 2nd syringe that Teresa had brought on her person) and remembers that he and Teresa were part of the organization that created the Maze, and that all of this was a test. The test started when all of them were kids & the organization gave them small puzzles to test their aptitudes. Until one day when the grown boys started disappearing one by one, starting with Alby. Now Thomas realizes that they were being sent into the Maze. Gally attempts to execute them, but the other Gladers stop him. Most follow Thomas through the maze's escape route.The group enter a lab strewn with dead scientists. A video recording of a woman, Eva Page from WCKD (World Catastrophe Kill Zone Department) explains that the planet has been devastated by increased solar activity, followed by a global pandemic that attacked the brain. The Gladers were an experiment researching the resistance of the new generation to the pandemic, to study what made them resist the virus & how was their brain different to any normal human brain. At the end, she shoots herself as the lab is attacked by gunmen.Gally suddenly appears with a gun. He is delirious from a Griever sting; he insists they must not leave the maze and proceeds to shoot Thomas. He is saved by Chuck--who sacrifices himself by jumping in front of Thomas--and Minho, who impales Gally with a spear. Armed masked men rush in to take the group away to a helicopter, though Thomas resists.As they fly over the maze, it is revealed to be in a vast desert. The helicopter approaches the ruins of a city buried in sand. The dead scientists are alive, stating that the experiment has been a success; the survivors are now entering Phase Two.

Storyline

Awakening in an elevator, remembering nothing of his past, Thomas emerges into a world of about thirty teenage boys, all without past memories, who have learned to survive under their own set of rules in a completely enclosed environment, subsisting on their own agriculture and supplies. With a new boy arriving every thirty days, the group has been in "The Glade" for three years, trying to find a way to escape through the Maze that surrounds their living space (patrolled by cyborg monsters named 'Grievers'). They have begun to give up hope when a comatose girl arrives with a strange note, and their world begins to change with the boys dividing into two factions: those willing to risk their lives to escape and those wanting to hang onto what they've got and survive. — KelseyJ A teen wakes up in a clearing in the center of a gigantic maze with no memory of his past, finding himself a resident in community of boys who have built a village in the glade and who sends two of its strongest and fittest runners into the maze every morning to find a way out. Every night the doors to the maze close and creatures known as 'grievers' kill those who are stuck inside. Nobody ever survives a night in the maze, but there must be a way out. — Blue_EagleUK Thomas wakes up in a strange elevator, with memories lost and no idea what is going to happen. He is accepted into a glade full of other teenage boys who call themselves "Gladers." After learning about the Maze that surrounds them all, Thomas becomes obsessed with finding a way out, which could mean certain death. A boy wakes up in an elevator with no recollection of his name, where he comes from, or where he is. As he emerges from the earth, he finds himself in a community of boys, living in a glade. As the boy slowly starts unearthing memories, such as his name, Thomas, he also finds out more sinister things from the other boys about the place he's landed. The boys are held prisoners within the center of a gigantic maze, and for three years they've been looking for a way out. Now it's up to Thomas to find that way, but the road isn't going to be easy, as any who dare enter the maze finds himself hunted by the Grievers. 1 more All