The Gift (2015)
Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going just as planned until a chance encounter with an acquaintance from Simon's high school sends their world into a harrowing tailspin. At first, Simon doesn't recognize Gordo, but after a troubling series of uninvited encounters and mysterious gifts, a horrifying secret emerges. As Robyn learns what really happened between Simon and Gordo, she begins to question how well she knows her spouse.
8 December 1963, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
3 May 1982, London, England, UK
25 June 1979, Oak Park, Illinois, USA
15 December 1974, Maplewood, New Jersey, USA
21 September 1969, New York, USA
7 November 1972, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
14 January 1969, Rye, New York, USA
23 June 1974, Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia
25 July 1973, Newport Beach, California, USA
1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 January 1973, Australia
8 February 1974, Lansing, Michigan, USA
September 29, 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
18 November 1981, Houston, Texas, USA
1 October 1978, Milbridge, Maine, USA
December 04, 2016
The Gift is a film that just keeps on giving.
August 20, 2015
The Gift chillingly illustrates what happens when fate reunites a class bully (Jason Bateman) with his prize victim, Gordo (Edgerton).
August 07, 2015
Just when we think we know where The Gift is going, we're surprised. And then surprised again.
May 27, 2016
It concludes with one of the most repugnant turns this side of a '60s-era exploitation "roughie," a "twist" so vile it pretty much cancels out the considerable skill and accomplishment of what's preceded it.
January 17, 2017
The Gift is almost unbearably tense
November 10, 2015
It's a concept that's more often the basis of arrested development comedies about late bloomers who finally come into their own, but there's nothing funny about how the past looms over the adults that Gordo and Simon have become.
August 14, 2015
Clever and atmospheric, the film has enough twists to keep the average viewer guessing.
December 19, 2016
The Gift is a tense, unsettling and expertly crafted psychological thriller that keeps the audience consistently on edge. [Full review in Japanese]
April 06, 2016
[The movie] twists an awkward encounter with an old high-school acquaintance into a cracking psychological thriller that offers some genuine surprises.
August 09, 2015
The Gift starts out like so many other thrillers before it - with an attractive, well-to-do couple purchasing a big new house - and then beats its own, uniquely tense and twisted path from there.
April 12, 2016
The third act of "The Gift" is so gross, so exploitative that it's a wonder it made it from page to screen uncontested.
August 13, 2015
Officially, this is a blank-from-hell movie. But Edgerton has remixed the formula.
