Not every gift is welcome.
Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and intimate.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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- talisencrwon TMDB · May 20169/10
Being a) the shortest boy in my class in my early years; b) the smartest; and c) adopted by parents of mixed ethnicity (which was a rarity in my small city at that time, the mid 70's), I was a natural target for bullies. At every conceivable instance (and a lot of inconceivable ones as well!), I fought all comers, often coming home black-and-blue, and exhausted--I may have lost some matches to bigger and older boys, but if they were going to win, they were at least going to pay for it, and feel the after-effects for a while. (Thankfully this ended when I was talking with my friend, who was carrying home his personal baseball equipment, when I was approached. I asked if I could borrow his bat for a second, and that ended that. I wouldn't recommend that as a solution to others, for legal reasons. Thankfully the bully's mom and mine were friends, and when he ran home crying and told her what happened, she replied, 'If Billy did that to you, then you deserved it.') I don't often do so, but I watched the DVD extras before I watched the film (I usually wait until afterwards). Edgerton's impressive directorial debut here, as well as script, fulfilled (at least to my eyes) his purpose, tha
Read the whole review on TMDB - Renoon TMDB · Dec 20157/10
> In a rage for revenge, the GIFTS can be our handy weapon. Firstly, it was well written by Joel Edgerton as well debuted as a director with it. That is only because of comparing with other over hyped crappy mystery-thrillers. Frankly, to me it was a decent flick that I enjoyed watching. Flaws, loopholes, whatever you call them, this film had so many due to lack of revelation of the earlier occurrence. While I tried to raise the questions on the issues I found, I also discovered possible answers for them. So either way it covers up as a little smartly, but in reality that does not make any sense at all. Kind of a revenge movie, but I can't reveal more than that about the theme as it may spoil if you have not seen it yet. It was about a young married couple who moved back to their hometown after losing their unborn baby. They encounter one of their high school friends in a shopping mall and the relationship grows intensely on one end where the other side was indirectly denied. So what might happen when the grown up guys caught in a state like this is what brings the crux of the story. As usual Rebecca Hall was so hot, Jason Bateman in a convincing act and Joel Edgerton, who was in a
Read the whole review on TMDB - mattwilde123on TMDB · Mar 20176/10
This film was good. The acting was good. It was well written and had good plot twists. It did get a bit too predictable and over-the-top by the end. ★★★
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Cast
- Joel EdgertonGordo Mosley
- Rebecca HallRobyn Callem
- Jason BatemanSimon Callem
- Tim GriffinKevin Keelor
- Allison TolmanLucy
- Busy PhilippsDuffy
- Adam Lazarre-WhiteRon
- Beau KnappDetective Walker
- Wendell PierceDetective Mills
- Mirrah FoulkesWendy Dale
Crew
- Joel EdgertonDirector
- Joel EdgertonWriter
- Eduard GrauDirector of Photography
- Danny BensiOriginal Music Composer
- Saunder JurriaansOriginal Music Composer
- Luke DoolanEditor
- Matt ChesséEditor
- Rebecca YeldhamProducer
- Jason BlumProducer
- Joel EdgertonProducer
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