The Ultimate Gift
This story tells about a man named Jason Stevens who lives a rich life. After a while, his grandfather dies, where Jason is expected to get a huge inheritance. Jason discovers that this inheritance has to be in return and that he must perform a series of tasks in order to obtain that ideal gift with no idea of what may be in the future or may happen.
19 May 1980, Atherton, California, USA
16 June 1934, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
12 April 1930, North Carolina, USA
20 April 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 March 1982, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
17 May 1976, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
May 2, 1979 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
14 April 1996, New York City, New York, USA
April 17, 2007
I haven't even read the book, and I know it has to be better than the movie.
March 20, 2007
I think urban sophisticates can be people of faith who want to see movies, occasionally, that don't have the four-letter words, and I do embrace religion, but I think they have to be better than this.
March 14, 2007
The Ultimate Gift is kind of like a feel-good Saw for churchgoers, minus the sadistic games of death.
March 30, 2007
A parabolic film about one selfish young man's spiritual transformation.
September 09, 2007
The Ultimate Gift will put you in a diabetic coma.
August 22, 2007
This new film moves along smoothly until Grandpa's most preposterous mission - which needlessly drags out the movie -- takes Jason to a severely caricatured Ecuador.
March 17, 2007
Christian charity, in this movie, seems like a side-effect of capitalism.
August 21, 2007
It's Self-Help: The Movie, and it stinks to high heaven.
March 18, 2007
The result is a deep desire for those Hollywood execs to remember that Christian doesn't have to equal brain-dead.
March 15, 2007
[James] Garner is good, and so is Brian Dennehy as a crusty ranch owner; Abigail Breslin, playing a leukemia patient, demonstrates that she was not a one-note wonder in Little Miss Sunshine.
March 19, 2007
The film squeaks by on a combination of reliable old pros...and appealing newcomers...
March 17, 2007
If you missed the money-isn't-everything message, an end-credits recap outlines the story's salient points -- if you'd known, you could've skipped the rest.
