Gifted (2017)

Release date: 2017-04-12
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Marc Webb
Production Co: Dayday Films, FilmNation Entertainment, Fox Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Drama
Rating: 7.6/10
Length: 1h 41min

Storyline

Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is a single man raising a child prodigy - his spirited young niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary. Octavia Spencer plays Roberta, Frank and Mary's landlady and best friend. Jenny Slate is Mary's teacher, Bonnie, a young woman whose concern for her student develops into a connection with her uncle as well.

Plot Keywords

lawyer, child prodigy, child custody, grandmother granddaughter relationship, genius, trial, elementary school, school, seashell, fight, distrust, missing someone, reference to albert einstein, holding hands, trust, sadness, anger, water pump, crying man, death

Short Review

Gifted is not your run-of-the-mill melodrama. More like an exceptional melodrama. It still plays the violin, if you get what I mean, but the violinist is skilful.