2000 · thriller · mystery
The Gift (2000)
Directed by Sam Raimi1h 52m2000
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of a missing local woman, Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.
Our read: The Gift (2000) (2000) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive thriller · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- bleak
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