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Gift (The)
- Director: Joel Edgerton
- Writer: Joel Edgerton
- Producer: Jason Blum; Jeanette Brill
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It's not a bad debut from Joel Edgerton...
If you can suspend your disbelief and ignore the glaring flaws...then, a nifty little thriller is presented.
It's a story of...the past creeping up on you and biting...hard.
The problem...Jason Bateman is a slime-ball and deserves absolutely everything that he gets...which kind of defeats the purpose of a revenge film.
Still...it's a competent film...even if there's no-one to root for...!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going just as planned until a chance encounter with an acquaintance from Simon's high school sends their world into a harrowing tailspin. Simon doesn't recognize Gordo at first, but after a series of uninvited encounters and mysterious gifts prove troubling, a horrifying secret from the past is uncovered after more than 20 years. As Robyn learns the unsettling truth about what happened between Simon and Gordo, she starts to question: how well do we really know the people closest to us, and are past bygones ever really bygones?
Cast & Characters
Jason Bateman as Simon;
Rebecca Hall as Robyn;
Joel Edgerton as Gordo;
Allison Tolman as Lucy;
Tim Griffin as Kevin 'KK' Keelor;
Busy Philipps as Duffy;
Adam Lazarre-White as Ron;
Beau Knapp as Detective Walker;
Wendell Pierce as Detective Mills;
Mirrah Foulkes as Wendy Dale;
Nash Edgerton as Frank Dale;
David Denman as Greg;
Katie Aselton as Joan;
David Joseph Craig as Stewart;
Susan May Pratt as Rhonda Ryan