The Gift (2000)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Dec 20, 2000
Running Time: 110 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
director: Sam Raimi
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Good-hearted Annie Wilson, who bears "the gift" of psychic vision, is a recently widowed mother of three young boys in the rural town of Brixton, Georgia. Scorned by some of the narrow-minded town citizens, Annie struggles to support herself and her sons by giving psychic readings to a few of the members of this small community. Annie advises one of them, Valerie, to leave her husband Donnie, a macho town bully. Her visions begin to unravel the town's dark secrets, and she finds herself in increasing danger as the drowned body of a woman is found. Her "gift" becomes her only hope to save herself and her family.
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January 9, 2001
Billy Bob Thornton co-wrote this psychological thriller, and it's trash with class. Just say "murder in a small Southern town," and I'm intrigued. Add a first-rate cast, led by Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves and Boys Don't Cry Oscar winner Hilary Swank, and I'm hooked. Tell me that superbabe Katie Holmes plays the rich-vixen victim, given to quickies with married men and daring her school-principal fiance‚ (Greg Kinnear) to fuck her on the spot when she bares her boobs in a country-club parking… Continued
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Director Sam Raimi pours on the suspense in a glass of Southern Comfort with this star-driven supernatural thriller.

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A single mother of three, Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett) gives psychic card readings to the local townsfolk to make ends meet. Born with "the gift," she is able to glimpse into the past, present or future. But her bucolic Southern lifestyle is disrupted when her friend Valerie's (Hilary Swank) abusive husband Donnie (Keanu Reeves) threatens her family and accuses her of… Continued

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Annie Wilson
Buddy Cole
Donnie Barksdale
Wayne Collins
Valerie Barksdale
Jessica King
Gerald Weems
Linda
David Duncan
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