Synopsis
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of a missing local woman, Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.
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Cast
- Cate BlanchettAnnie Wilson
- Giovanni RibisiBuddy Cole
- Keanu ReevesDonnie Barksdale
- Katie HolmesJessica King
- Greg KinnearWayne Collins
- Hilary SwankValerie Barksdale
- Michael JeterGerald Weems
- Kim DickensLinda
- Gary ColeDavid Duncan
- Rosemary HarrisAnnie's Granny
Recommendations
- 75
Boston Globe
A solidly crafted, suspensefully written, powerfully acted little juggernaut. - 70
Variety
A good, old-fashioned suspenser. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Overly familiar material, even well done, cannot be made more intrinsically interesting than it is. Not even by Cate Blanchett and Keanu Reeves. - 60
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Were it not for these performances (Blanchett, Ribisi, Swank, Reeves), The Gift would be fairly negligible. - 60
Village Voice
A creepily effective button-pusher that owes a bit to the original "Cape Fear" both in Sam Raimi's ruthless direction and Keanu Reeves's unexpectedly robust performance as the most violent redneck peckerwood in a steamy Georgia town. - 50
Baltimore Sun
Outside of a strong (and largely misused) cast and an abundance of moody atmosphere, there's precious little to recommend this exploitative mess. - 50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A clumsy, heavy-handed and unnecessarily sordid occult thriller that somehow has managed to generate a big pre-release buzz. - 40
TNT RoughCut
In terms of cleverly hidden exposition, this ain't "The Sixth Sense."
