The Gift

Released Aug 7, 2015

1h 48m

Mystery & Thriller

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75%

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50,000+ Ratings

When married couple Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) unexpectedly encounter Gordo (Joel Edgerton), an acquaintance from Simon's past, little do they know that their perfect lives will be thrown into a terrifying 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.

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Critics Consensus

The Gift is wickedly smart and playfully subversive, challenging the audience's expectations while leaving them leaning on the edges of their seats.

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Stephanie Zacharek

TIME Magazine

Hall, as a woman who's been slowly waking up to her reality for a long time without even knowing it, is terrific.

Aug 1, 2024

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Udita Jhunjhunwala

Livemint

The violence is always emotional and psychological, not bloody and physical, which makes The Gift that much more disconcerting.

Aug 15, 2019

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Claudia Puig

The Asahi Shimbun GLOBE (Japan)

The Gift is a tense, unsettling and expertly crafted psychological thriller that keeps the audience consistently on edge. [Full review in Japanese]

Rated: 3.5/4

Dec 19, 2016

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Jordy Sirkin

Jordy Reviews It

It may play as a standard stalker film in the beginning, it slowly evolves into something else. It’s sad, disturbing, and a fairly unpredictable film. The ending is abrupt, but it allows the viewer to make their own conclusion — which I quite liked.

Feb 22, 2023

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

It certainly hits some of the normal genre ticks, but you almost sense that it’s doing it to set the audience up in order to pull the rug out from under them later on.

Rated: 4.5/5

Aug 21, 2022

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Edgerton’s engrossing and innovative directorial debut is a complicated, cleverly crafted drama about secrets and revenge, implanting definite anticipation for his next effort as a director.

Rated: 3/4

Jun 8, 2022

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Deena K

The film started off very suspenseful, kept you curious to watch and see what was really happening. All kinds of bizarre behavior and crazy happenings take place. While the suspense is real, and you want this creepy Gordo gone, Simon never taken action to report him to the police. The wife does her own snooping around, actually getting drugged by Gordo one time, all to find out her husband was a bully in highschool. This where you want to just turn it off cause it's getting pretty stupid. Well, you don't turn it off and it continues on to more and more stupid. The ending is vague, leaving it open to the viewers interpretation. This could have been a great film, ruined with stupid highschool bs. I definitely do not recommend this film.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/03/24

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Taylor P

Very good can't believe I have never seen it! Thrilling till the end!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/01/24

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sophisticated h

Amazing film. I luv Gordo

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/11/24

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Audience Member

Awful story. It seems the writers were going for some kind of attack on toxic masculinity by painting Simon as the bad guy towards the end, but if they wanted to do that, they shouldn’t of had Gordo potentially S/A Robyn. All this felt like the writers were trying to say Gordo’s actions were justified by Simon’s actions in high school(which they were absolutely not). I don’t know about anyone else, but I finished this movie feeling a lot more in favor of bullying.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/03/24

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Rich S

If these unhinged madmen movies are your thing, "The Gift" might be just the change-of-pace present you've been wanting. The drawback is that it's a story that is getting repackaged and re-wrapped to the point that it seems like it should be called "The Re-Gifting."

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

05/29/24

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Pasquale M

Joel Edgerton did a great job directing and starring in this movie, so many times were it was very intense and a psychotic thriller, Jase Bateman as always is great, the ending was also great!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/26/24

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Joel Edgerton

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Jason Bateman

Simon

Rebecca Hall

Robyn

Joel Edgerton

Gordo

Allison Tolman

Lucy

Busy Philipps

Duffy

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