![]() ![]() ![]() Outside of its open and shameless heartstring tugging, Gifted at least sets up a compelling, multisided moral dilemma. When Mary’s precocity is brought to the attention of her first-grade teacher, Bonnie (Jenny Slate), and later, the school principal and child services, Frank does two things: sleep with Bonnie, and get embroiled in an ugly court battle with Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan), his mother and Mary’s grandmother, who wants nothing more than to be the momager to another child genius. But by the time we catch up to them, Mary is already turning out to be quite the prodigy herself, something that Frank is in vehement denial about. Honoring his sister’s not-quite-official wishes, Frank whisked her away from her stuffy MIT-geek milieu and settled with Mary in Florida, to live a simple but virtuous life as a normal child. Gifted, a movie where Captain America plays a single guardian of an adorable genius child, is already a triple-decker ice-cream cake of sympathy, but someone must have thought it needed a little more icing: In the film’s climax, Chris Evans saves not one, but three cats.Įvans plays Frank, a beer-and-T-shirt type whom one character helpfully refers to as “the damaged hot guy.” Frank is the caretaker of Mary (Mckenna Grace) the 7-year-old child of his sister, a math genius who committed suicide when Mary was still an infant. The idea of “saving the cat,” one weird screenplay trick coined by Blake Snyder, is so dumb it can seem genius the first time you hear it: In order for us to sympathize with the hero, he must save a cat - or dog, or small child, or whatever - in the first act. Octavia Spencer, Mckenna Grace, and Chris Evans in Gifted. ![]()
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