The Gift
The only witness to the crime was not even there.
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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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Use your instinct
Voodoo doll
Cast
Cate Blanchett
Annie Wilson
Giovanni Ribisi
Buddy Cole
Keanu Reeves
Donnie Barksdale
Katie Holmes
Jessica King
Greg Kinnear
Wayne Collins
Hilary Swank
Valerie Barksdale
Michael Jeter
Gerald Weems
Kim Dickens
Linda
Gary Cole
David Duncan
Rosemary Harris
Annie's Granny
J.K. Simmons
Sheriff Pearl Johnson
Chelcie Ross
Kenneth King
John Beasley
Albert Hawkins
Russell Durham Comegys
Ben Sr.
Stuart Greer
Officer Huggins
Danny Elfman
Tommy Lee Ballard
Rebecca Koon
Buddy's Mother
Erik Cord
Buddy's Father
Earl Maddox
Barksdale (uncredited)
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Reviews
Wuchak
**_Whodunnit Southern Gothic with Cate Blanchett_**
In a town near coastal Georgia, a widow (Cate Blanchett) struggles to make ends meet with her three boys via her psychic abilities. When a young woman goes missing (Katie Holmes), the authorities ask her for assistance. Greg Kinnear, Keanu Reeves, Hilary Swank, Giovanni Ribisi, Gary Cole and JK Simmons are all on hand.
“The Gift” (2001) meshes plot elements of “Resurrection” (1980) with the setting or tone of “Murder in Coweta County,” “The General’s Daughter” and a little “Cape Fear” (1991). You can’t beat the cast and the Southern town ambiance is great, plus the flawed characters are nicely fleshed-out.
There are no less than five possibilities of who the culprit is and, with 20 minutes to go, it becomes clear who it is. Regrettably, it’s just so cliched and contrived I rolled my eyes, not to mention it ‘steals’ the hope of the viewer. I don’t want to say more because I don’t want to give anything away.
Still, if you can roll with that banal element, it’s a quality drama with a worthy point. Both Cate and Holmes are fetching in a girl-next-door kind of way.
It runs 1 hour, 51 minutes, and was shot in the Savannah area (Guyton, Thunderbolt and Springfield).
GRADE: B-/B
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