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Gifted full movie 201712/30/2023 ![]() ![]() She calls a meeting with Frank and the school principal, who offers Mary a full scholarship to a school for gifted youngsters. On her first day, Mary’s teacher Bonnie (Jenny Slate) discovers Mary is able to multiply huge sums in her head. Some Friday nights Frank drinks at a local bar, but he always makes sure Mckenna spends those nights with his landlord/pal Roberta (Octavia Spencer), whom Mary adores.įrank wants more than anything for his niece to have a “normal childhood”, so he enrolls her in first grade at the local public school. They’ve got a well-fed, one-eyed cat named Fred. He’s been loosely homeschooling Mary and working on boats to pay the bills since moving down from Boston to Central Florida a few years ago. Fun and flawless, Frank is the greatest surrogate dad of all time. Mary (Mckenna Grace) is a seven-year-old math prodigy being raised by her Uncle Frank (Chris Evans). ![]() Now free of that franchise, he turns his attention to a smaller story about great expectations. The idea of wedging in a potential romance between Frank and Bonnie seems perhaps ill-advised and superfluous, but Slate is so darn likable that I genuinely didn’t mind.Starring Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Jenny Slateĭirector Marc Webb reached great heights in 2009 with his wonderful debut, 500 Days of Summer, before being sucked into the Hollywood Blockbuster Machine and churning out two disappointing Amazing Spider-Man movies in 20. Director Webb makes us care so deeply about Mary’s fate and future that it’s sometimes painful to watch as she and Frank are forced apart briefly. There’s a court case where all the ugly family secrets come out, but before that point, we’re already fully invested in this family nightmare. Her uncle spots the early stages of Mary becoming arrogant around other, less gifted children, and it pains him as he struggles to help her learn patience. Frank and Evelyn are effectively fighting for Mary’s future and her soul.įrank is intent on surrounding Mary with loving, caring people, like Bonnie and their neighbor Roberta (Octavia Spencer), who will expand her world beyond numbers. It turns out the entire family is quite strong in the field of mathematics, and as a result, it tore them apart because Evelyn pushed her children too hard, too early and kept them from having the lives and friendships that most kids get to have. It soon becomes clear that the root of this battle over Mary’s future stems from her absent mother, who was a math genius who committed suicide right after asking Frank to take care of his daughter. Gifted begins to open up as a dramatic force when Frank’s mother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) arrives, after a long search for her granddaughter, whom she threatens to take away from Frank if he doesn’t send her to a nearby school that will help Mary develop her already formidable mathematical skills. Her teacher Bonnie (Jenny Slate) brings this fact to Frank’s attention, and he insists that Mary is exactly where she needs to be, for the purposes of giving her something resembling the life of a normal child. When we meet Frank Adler (Chris Evans) and his seven-year-old niece, Mary (McKenna Grace), they live in a small coastal Florida trailer park, where she goes to public school, even though it’s immediately clear that her math skills make her way too smart for any primary school classroom. The concept of the new film from director Marc Webb ( 500 Days of Summer ) seems deceptively simple but as Tom Flynn’s deft screenplay ( plucked from the 2014 blacklist ) scratches the surface, things get complicated and often painful. Photograph courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures ![]()
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