Gifted (2017)

	Directed by: Marc Webb	COUNTRY USA GENRE Drama NORWEGIAN TITLE Gifted RUNNING TIME 101 minutes
	Produced by: Karen Lunder Andy Cohen
	Written by: Tom Flynn

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Franceis "Frank" Adler	Chris Evans	½
Mary Adler	Mckenna Grace	½
Evelyn Adler	Lindsay Duncan	½
Bonnie Stevenson	Jenny Slate
Roberta Taylor	Octavia Spencer	½
Justin Gilmore	Michael Kendall Kaplan	-
Greg Cullen	Glenn Plummer	-

Review

Everything feels a little too neat and mellow in the opening of this bighearted film about a seven-year-old mathematical genius (Mckenna Grace) living with her underachieving, self-sacrificing brother and de facto guardian (Chris Evans) – so much so that it attains that good old TV-movie feel. Then the plot thickens, and director Mark Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man) is able to give his story the complexity and flow it needs to get going and become engaging, if not necessarily as authentic as it may want you to believe. Little Mckenna Grace sometimes delivers lines which are too obviously scripted, and there are character relations in here which come off as a little too tried-and-tested, but the ending has both purpose and poignancy and hits all the right manipulative buttons.