Gifted
PG-13

Gifted

How do you create an ordinary life for an extraordinary girl?

2017 • 101 min • Drama · Comedy

Synopsis

Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

Our family guide

Best from age 11
67
Movie Knight Score
6021 reviews
  • 60 Reviewers · 5 · 65%
  • 80 Audience · 6016 · 35%

Frank, a single man, tries to give his intellectually gifted niece, Mary, a normal childhood. This leads to a difficult custody battle with his mother, who wants Mary to embrace her prodigious mathematical talents. It explores family bonds, unconventional parenting, and the pressures of exceptionalism.

Violence & peril
2/10
Language
3/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
2/10
Romance & sensuality
1/10
Scary moments
2/10

Heads up

  • Disputes about a child's future
  • Emotional family arguments
  • Brief mentions of past trauma
  • Adult themes of loss and sacrifice

What it models well

  • Family loyalty and unconventional love
  • Embracing unique talents
  • Importance of childhood and emotional well-being
  • Sacrifice for loved ones

Talk about it after

  • What makes a good parent?
  • The challenges of being exceptionally gifted
  • Balancing personal potential with a normal life
  • The definition of a "normal" childhood

Written by the Movie Knight editorial team for Gifted. Our own words, our own scoring — always double-check against your family's standards.

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Top billed cast

Director: Marc Webb • Crew: Tom Flynn

Trailers & clips

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Clip #3 "Get That Child"

Clip #2 "Sunset"

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"Story" Featurette

"Mary" TV Commercial

Reviewer notes

Recommended

McKenna Grace is good here as the young "Mary" who is clearly rather gifted with it comes to mathematics. Her teacher "Miss Stevenson" (Jenny Slate) cottons on quite quickly and after an altercation on the school bus, her uncle "Frank" (Chris Evans) with whom she lives after the suicide of her mother (his sister) is being sold the virtues of a new school with a much more focussed agenda.…

Recommended

Click here for a video version of this review: youtu.be/-BWlPAUidmI _Gifted_ is a 2017 movie starring Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, and Octavia Spencer and is a wonderfully sweet movie that tells the story of Mary and her Uncle Frank who live together due to the untimely death of Mary's mother. Mary is not just any seven year old though, she is intellectually gifted and a mathematical genius.…

Recommended

**One's fighting for the child and the other's for her gift!** Films about battle for child custody is a very familiar theme. There are lots of great films you could find. This is just another, but another great among them. There's actually nothing special about it. It's simple and emotional. The characters were slightly different, and agenda for courtroom drama is interesting aspect of the film.…

Not recommendedTrusted family reviewers

Extraordinarily conventional. It will surely appeal to devotees of this sort of thing, because it's well acted and has some minor emotional impact, but with the exception of what essentially boils down to a gimmick, _Gifted_ is just like a hundred other okay movies that deal with the same subject in the same way. _Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._

Not recommendedTrusted family reviewers

Good, but not great. A few, not many, funny lines. Best performance by Mckenna Grace. The best I can say is that it wasn't a good movie but it wasn't a bad movie either.

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Details

TMDB audience
8.0/10 (6,016)
Age rating
PG-13
Status
Released
Budget
$7,000,000
Box office
$40,300,000
Official site
www.filmnation.com

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