Gift

Pros: Fantastic acting by all-star cast, great direction, terrific script
Cons: Can't think of any

I didn't know much about The Gift before dragging my reluctant friend to see it with me. Though we have very divergent preferences in movies, we both left there very excited about this film. We loved it!

The Basics
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Pros: Superb cast (minus Keanu Reeves of course) and direction
Cons: A bit slow and too drawn out, Southern stereotypes of course

BUCKLE UP

I’m going to be honest with you people. My friends, my fellow epinionators.

I'm going to straight up come clean and tell everybody why I purchased The Gift on DVD.

No lies just the simple truth,...

Pros: cast especially Reeves
Cons: too dang predictable darn it

I can’t imagine what a miserable life you would have to be born with psychic abilities. Maybe you don’t believe in such things, a lot of people don’t, but I think some people just have that inner eye and what a miserable gift it must be. ...

Pros: Great cast, good twists and suprises
Cons: Some may find it easy to guess who did it

The Gift features a massive all-star cast of Oscar winners and Oscar nominees. It is co-written by Billy Bob Thornton and directed by Sam Raimi (Evil Dead Trilogy, A Simple Plan, and the upcoming Spiderman film). Many people compare it to The Sixth...

Pros: Blanchett, Ribisi, Reeves, visual integrity, cinematography, surprisingly engrossing
Cons: strange, ( but still interesting), dialog at times

Now here' s a movie I was looking forward to, but then it just disappeared from sight, like a promise from my ex-husband. There was hype..it must have premiered, because I see there are reviews on site, then NOTHING...And I just happened to be toodling...

Pros: Cate Blanchett. Greg Kinnear. Keanu Reeves is surprisingly good.
Cons: Southern Gothic cliches abound. Over the top melodrama. Giovanni Ribisi.

Olivia Newton-John and I had a busy day today, rehearsing our jealousy duet in Act II of my new extravaganza, Aida on Ice. It begins with a wonderful peppy new tune, penned by Frank Wildhorn, and then turns into a competition skate off for...

Pros: Cate Blanchett is the only reason to see this movie.
Cons: Script and characters come to you direct from Cookie-Cutter Screenwriting 101

It should have been a pleasure unwrapping this post-Christmas present. After all, The Gift boasts an A-list cast and crew. Its director, Sam Raimi, had made the best film noir in recent years with 1998’s A Simple Plan. He’d also...

Pros: Great cast and impressive direction.
Cons: Predictable, stale screenplay; Keanu Reeves.

There’s something about a movie with an all-star cast that makes me want to see it, no matter how bad the critics trash it. I mean, even if the script is horrible, seeing all these people giving their 100 percent is worth the price of admission. Sadly,...

Pros: Blanchett's acting, Raimi's dream sequences, Laughable bad acting by Reeves
Cons: Predicable and boring script, Cardboard characters, Dreadful acting overall.

What a piece of donkey dung The Gift turned out to be. I walked into the theater with some hopes of decent entertainment since Sam Raimi (A Simple Plan and Dark Man) was directing, Billy Bob Thornton (One False Move and...

Pros: Solid cast, good script, great photography
Cons: Greg Kinnear, slow-paced at times

Friday night, oh how I loathe thee. You see, about a month ago, Mr. CHD and I agreed that Friday would be our movie-watching night. Despite the sheer patheticness of installing such a routine when you're not even married, we now have a new problem: we...

Pros: Great cast and interesting idea.
Cons: Predictable, derivative plot, Giovanni Ribisi completely overacts.

The most exciting thing about The Gift is that it is overloaded with talent. Not only was the script co-written by Billy Bob Thornton (who won an Oscar in 1997 for his Sling Blade screenplay), but the movie was directed by Sam...

Pros: Extremely well-acted, Great direction, Creepy atmosphere mingled with a human story
Cons: Dwindles slowly to a typical mystery with an unsatisfying conclusion

The Gift is a creepy, intriguing, and strongly acted psychological supernatural story, enveloped and nearly smothered by a traditional mystery one. Its heart is the effective tale of a woman who thrives on her gift of psychic visions but is...

Pros: the visions
Cons: you'll figure out who done it, before she is even missing

This past weekend my sister and her kids stayed with my family for a couple days. While they were here my sister and I saw a commercial for the movie The Gift. I must say that the commercial did spark an interest in both of us. When my sister and...

Pros: Very rich photography and good performances
Cons: It ends just as you will predict.

Cate Blanchett is Annabelle Wilson, a single mother of three boys, raising them as best she can in the small southern town of Brixton. Her husband "blewed up", he "blewed up good" in a plant explosion that left, well ... him, dead.
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Pros: good drama, suspenseful rather than thrilling
Cons: pacing can feel distracted or slow

Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett) is a struggling widow with three boys trying to make ends meet in her small bayou town. In addition to what she receives from Social Security, she accepts donations for psychic readings. Annie has regular clients who range ...