
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- 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
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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"
Academy Conversations: Gifted
Clip #1 “Ad Nauseam”
"Story" Featurette
"Mary" TV Commercial
Reviewer notes
RecommendedMcKenna 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.…
RecommendedClick 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 reviewersExtraordinarily 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 reviewersGood, 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
- IMDb
- tt4481414
- Official site
- www.filmnation.com

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