NEW YORK — It was almost 20 years ago, and actor Jeff Bridges was searching for a movie project that would be a family affair — one in which he could direct his father, Lloyd, and that his children, then around middle-school age, would want to see. He noticed something in a children’s book catalog. “It had a picture of this old grizzled guy on the cover. And I said, ‘Oh, Dad could do that!’” That book was “The Giver,” by Lois Lowry, which won the Newberry Medal …