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Would You Rather (film)

2012 film by David Guy Levy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Would You Rather is a 2012 American psychological horror thriller film directed by David Guy Levy and starring Brittany Snow and Jeffrey Combs. It is based on the party game "would you rather", and centers on a woman named Iris as she attends a dinner party, where she must partake in life-threatening games to help her sick younger brother secure a donor after he is diagnosed with leukemia.

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The public source identifies “Would You Rather (film)” as 2012 film by David Guy Levy. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Would, Rather and film.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Would, Rather and film providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Would You Rather (film)”, the useful work is to connect “2012 film by David Guy Levy” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Would You Rather (film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.