The Gift

December. 22,2000      R
Rating:
6.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Cate Blanchett as  Annie Wilson
Giovanni Ribisi as  Buddy Cole
Keanu Reeves as  Donnie Barksdale
Katie Holmes as  Jessica King
Greg Kinnear as  Wayne Collins
Hilary Swank as  Valerie Barksdale
Michael Jeter as  Gerald Weems
Kim Dickens as  Linda
Gary Cole as  David Duncan
Rosemary Harris as  Annie's Granny

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Reviews

Exoticalot
2000/12/22

People are voting emotionally.

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Stevecorp
2000/12/23

Don't listen to the negative reviews

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Mandeep Tyson
2000/12/24

The acting in this movie is really good.

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Fleur
2000/12/25

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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tbills2
2000/12/26

I love Cate Blanchett. She is quite the looker, my friend. If you didn't know this from watching Cate in her movies that she's oh so beautiful and oh so intelligent then you have no precognitive psychic capability at all, or cognitive sensibility for that matter. The Gift has a special cast - Blanchett, Reeves, Holmes, Kinnear, Ribisi, Swank. I really love all these actors and actresses but I really love the actresses the most; the actors are all really good in this but Hilary, Katie, and Cate are all phenomenal, like Annabelle's gift. Blanchett is a pure actress. Everyone else is just for kicks and giggles. I get a lot of kicks and a lot of giggles over Katie Holmes in The Gift. I love Katie Holmes. She's almost as pretty as Cate. Cate, you sly devil, I love you. The Gift is a fascinating, complex, and excellent showcase of a movie. I'm not sure why you want me to tell you that it's not like I have special mental powers or anything. I just love movies and I really love beautiful woman, like Cate, and Katie, and Hilary, and Kim Dickens. I would go get readings from Annabelle just to be with her, in a sweet way, kind of like Buddy. Donnie is a crazy creep and Wayne is a raging psycho. The Gift is very underappreciated by everyday people but not by movie lovers. I love The Gift really and it earns an 8 in my humble opinion attributed to the brilliant in depth acting and marvelous story writing. Katie Holmes' boobies are outrageously the best boobies for all ages of time. You didn't need foresight to know that that was coming. I love Katie Holmes and I really love Cate and this movie has an unforeseeable twist ending, unless you're really smart.

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Nicolas F. Costoglou
2000/12/27

The Gift is one of the more serious films made by Sam Raimi,which is not a positive and not a negative thing, because this movie is as good as Evil Dead, or Spider-Man, only a different kind of Story.It's from 2000, around this time people seemed to make movies to tell interesting stories, not just to sell toys, and this movie is a great example. It's written by the well-known actor Billy Bob-Thornton who was inspired by his mother who apparently had some sort of psychic powers. If you believe something like that or not is completely subjective and has no impact on your enjoyment of this fictional tale, which is very dramatic and very well told.The camera-work isn't as outrages and wild as in over Raimi movies, which fits the story and underlines the tone of the movie perfectly. Because of this, the creative and intense scenes in which the protagonist has symbolic dreams, or psychic premonitions are all the more effective, and the visual effects are almost unnoticeable, even after all these years.The acting in this film is overall fantastic, one of the strongest reasons why this movie works for me is that i was completely engaged. I was afraid that Cate Blanchett's character, or her children could get hurt by Keanu Reeves, who's unbelievably threatening in this film and gives one of his best performances. Not to mention Giovanni Ribisi, J.K. Simmons, Katie Holmes or especially Greg Kinnear.The soundtrack by Christopher Young (who Raimi would later work with on Spider-Man 3) also fits well for the setting and atmosphere. All in all i was very surprised by the quality of this movie, which also has a very satisfying conclusion.It reminded me in some aspects of one of my favourite thrillers "What lies beneath" which came out the same year...

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SnoopyStyle
2000/12/28

Jessica King (Katie Holmes), the fiancée of Wayne Collins (Greg Kinnear), has gone missing. Annabelle Wilson (Cate Blanchett) is the local psychic who has visions of Jessica King. Following her advise, Sheriff Pearl Johnson (J.K. Simmons) dredges the swamp and finds Jessica's body. Donnie Barksdale (Keanu Reeves) is jailed for the murder. However, Annabelle keeps getting visions. There's more to the murder.Director Sam Raimi has teamed up with Billy Bob Thornton once again and this time as a writer. Cate Blanchett is terrific. There is an overload of big time actors. I almost wish that some of the lesser roles get played by smaller unknown actors. When it's overloaded like this, the movie can feel very Hollywood. However Blanchett never once feels fake in any way. She becomes the character with ease.

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David T
2000/12/29

For starters Cate Blanchett can do no wrong in my humble opinion, she's a very natural actor with an amazing ability to totally absorb the role she's playing.I found the story weak and some of the scenes incredibly predictable, the jump out and scare you moments, whilst only a handful are over done with sudden explosions of noise from the film's score. Totally un-needed as the tension works a wonderful solo.The cards she uses to get her 'visions' are weird - what are they. This, for me was the biggest weakness. They are an unnecessary prop, the character's psychic ability could very well stand on its own as visions and dreams.There's not badly cast person in this thriller, especially the three boys who their roles brilliantly, one wouldn't know they were acting. If you love Blanchett, you'll not be disappointed. Had it been a little tighter and not so strung out, I'd have given it a 10 - as it is, 8's a pretty good score I reckon.

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