The Gift
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of a missing local woman, Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.
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- Cast:
- Cate Blanchett , Giovanni Ribisi , Keanu Reeves , Katie Holmes , Greg Kinnear , Hilary Swank , Michael Jeter
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It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
Cate Blanchett was just wonderful here as the psychic, who recently lost her husband in an explosion, left with 3 children who soon becomes involved in a murder mystery.It appears obvious that town-married-hot head Keanu Reeves is the murderer and he has just gone to bed with every lady in town. Giovanni Ribisi steals his scenes as a suicide prone man, deeply disturbed who tries to set his father ablaze.Greg Kinnear is the school principal whose fiancé is murdered and that sets off the events.Blanchett is just perfect here in her seer assignment but the film may have faltered at the very end when Cate's imagination may have let it all get away from her regarding the Ribisi character.This is still a taut thriller seeing the macabre and producing a surprising murderer.
Single-mum small-town psychic overcomes prejudice to sense the location of a murder victim, but who dunnit? Well, it has Cate Blanchett - amazing face. And the cast is excellent. But this is a tired court-room murder thriler with a touch of the spooks. Definitely not a horror.Plenty of elements that could have gone perverse, but really this is a smorgasbord of Agatha Christie suspects that digests down to melodramatic excrement. I know it's Raimi, and all those excellent actors - maybe this is the price of getting paid too much.The final images are nice - three apples around the tree, then the branching of family. But no, disappointed.
Keanu Reeves Cate Blanchett, and Katie Holmes, star studded affair as a pyshic reader is called in when a woman disappears and the police can't find her, she is asked by the girl's rich father to look for her,, as time passes she has vibes that tell her where to look,, soon she finds the girl in a pond dead. this lead's to the suspicion of her violent husband played by Keanu Reeves,, I thought a lot of people were turned off by his character, seeing how abusive he was to his wife. is he the killer,, sure looks like it , but looks can be deceiving,, even after the husband is locked up she still has vibes about the killing.. you will just have to watch and see if Donnie really did kill his wife or is there someone else out there who had it in for her,, yeah the father daughter kiss, kinda threw me off guard, I was like wait a minute weren't they a little too close.
brilliant acting. impressive cast. and the unique Cate Blanchette. pieces of a most common and special thriller. tale of a gift and which hunting. and force of a woman out of any pressure. not action is important. but the structure. not fear. but delicacy of feelings. moral lesson, metaphor, remember of Christian values, subtle game and silent joy of inspired end. a film as silk. colors, touch, waters of past, the truth and desire to give to others each slice of your gift. vulnerability as heart of force. courage as skin for profound fear. all as beautiful work of a great actress and precise art of each of her partners.