In a future, overcrowded, dystopian society, students with the lowest test scores are culled. Two students discover errors with the test.
"The Thinning" takes place in a future plagued by overcrowding where population control is dictated by a high-school aptitude test. When two students (Logan Paul and Peyton List) discover the test is smoke and mirrors hiding a larger conspiracy, they must fight the system to expose it and take it down.—Legendary Digital Media
The Thinning is set on a earth suffering from overpoplulation. To control the population, every year students from 1st to 12th grade have to take an aptitude test and only the smartest will pass. If you fail, you will be killed. A girl named Laina Michaels (Peyton List) will fight her way to show that she passed even when she is told she had failed the test with help from Blake Redding (Logan Paul)—Michael Finnegan
The Thinning is set in a not so distant future where Earth is becoming overpopulated and in order to control the population, students have to take a test and the ones that fail are euthanized. When two students Laina Michaels (Peyton List) and Blake Redding (Logan Paul) discover that the tests were rigged, they need to work together to fight the system so as to expose it and take it down.—Emmaleigh
"The Thinning" takes place in the future where a student aptitude test decides whether you continue to live your life. Two high school students, Blake Redding and Laina Michaels, are against it and are willing to do whatever it takes to take the system down before it's too late.—craftygirl-81864
In 2039, due to Earth's human overpopulation, the United Nations instructs all nations to annually cut their populations by 5%. The United States implements the 10-241 or "the Thinning", a standardized test in which those who fail will be executed.
Blake Redding, son of Texas governor Dean Redding, is dating a girl named Ellie Harper, neither of whom study for the exam. Blake passes the exams, while Ellie fails. Blake calls his father in an attempt to free Ellie, but he refuses.
On the day of his last exam a year later, Blake makes a video saying that he will purposefully fail his exam to test his father's loyalty. Redding takes notice of this announcement, and test manager Mason King, also head of the Department of Population Control, is ordered to pass Blake regardless of his score. Mason switches his score with genius classmate Laina Michaels, passing Blake at her expense. Suspicious, a teacher named Ms. Birch secretly hands Laina a keycard so she can unlock the doors and escape. Blake cuts the school's power, allowing Laina to escape. That, however, is hindered by the school initiating lockdown. After using the keycard, Laina meets up with Blake.
After a series of escapades with the guards, Laina goes to the server room to check the scores, learning that test scores are shuffled, resulting in the wrongful deaths of many students with passing scores. Laina gives it to her friend Kellan, who is acquainted with a news anchor. The power is turned on, and Laina is caught on camera, thus taken to the Thinning. Blake, still in the disguise, attempts to release all the failed students, but is caught by the guards. After photos of the system's misconduct are leaked, Redding reluctantly executes all of those who actually failed, including Blake, by injection. As the lockdown ends, Laina is reunited with her younger sister Corrine as well as Ms. Birch, who has been taking care of Corrine since their mother's death.
Blake and the rest are taken underground, where many people are working for tech company Assuru Global. As Blake slowly wakes up from what was actually a sleep drug, he sees a blonde girl working: Ellie.
