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The Gift
The Gift is a 2000 American supernatural thriller film directed by Sam Raimi, and starring Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Giovanni Ribisi, Hilary Swank, Katie Holmes, and Greg Kinnear. It centers on a single mother in rural Georgia who becomes involved in a local missing person case after she experiences a psychic vision. The screenplay was written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson based on the alleged psychic experiences of Thornton's mother.
Plot
In Brixton, Georgia, widow Annie Wilson is a clairvoyant who has visions of her late grandmother. Annie offers psychic readings to locals to support herself and her three sons. She frequently helps locals including Buddy Cole, an emotionally unstable young man who works at an auto repair shop, and Valerie Barksdale, a woman who is currently in an abusive marriage. Valerie's husband Donnie has repeatedly threatened Annie and her three children because Annie advised Valerie to leave him due to his abuse.
More details
| author | Billy Bob Thornton |
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| contentLocation | Georgia |
| director | Sam Raimi |
| editor | Bob Murawski |
| events | incest supernatural |
| genre | drama horror mystery thriller |
| keywords | abuse abusive marriage arrest cheat child sexual abuse clairvoyant discover even kill mental hospital morning police station psychiatric hospital read repair shop school principal sexually abused strike young man |
| musicBy | Christopher Young |
| producer | Gary Lucchesi Grant Curtis James Jacks Tom Rosenberg |
| productionCompany | Lakeshore Entertainment |
| publisher | Paramount Classics |
| recordedAt | Georgia |
| theme | ghost gothic missing people mystery thriller |