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The Gift

2000

Sam Raimi

Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes ...

5.7

13,145

Mystery In the bayous near Savannah lives Annie, a widow with three young sons and a gift: she's clairvoyant, supporting her family by reading cards. Not long after she's menaced by Donnie Barksdale, the abusive husband of a client, the sultry daughter of a prominent citizen (and fiancée of the school principal) goes missing. Annie leads the police to the woman's watery grave, Donnie's pond. At the trial and after, Annie must sort through an ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie is ingenious in its plotting, colorful in its characters, taut in its direction and fortunate in possessing Cate Blanchett (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The problem is that as the story unravels, the movie's center of gravity pulls away from Annie (...) The picture is saved from mediocrity by Mr. Raimi's smooth competence"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"It’s trash with class (...) 'The Gift' delivers the lurid goods as a scary, sexy, twist-a-minute whodunit."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"'A Simple Plan' was director Sam Raimi's much-admired graduation from genre shlock to serious movie-making. Now, sadly, he has given us what can only be described as An Unnecessarily Complicated and Boring Plan"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"A good, old-fashioned suspenser (...) Raimi eschews trendy, over-emphatic effects in favor of a straightforward approach that makes for a solid tale well told"	POS

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