![]() Given Evelyn's My God, What Have I Done? moment. This makes Frank's mission to prevent her from deciding Mary's academic future more sympathetic and understandable. However, her relentless drive for her daughter to be an academic success led to her having an emotional breakdown after completing her life's work and then committing suicide as she lost all sense of purpose in life. Anti-Villain: Painting Evelyn as a villain comes with the genre for a film like this, but she remains vaguely likable throughout because of her sharp wit, the fact that she does love Mary in her own way, and the nagging suspicion that she is right about Mary needing a totally different kind of academic environment from the one Frank is providing her. ![]() Acting Your Intellectual Age: Mary has problems relating to other kids of her age because of her unchildish interests.Not to be confused with Gifted, The Gifted (2014), or The Gifted (2017). A chain of events is set in place that draws Mary's grandmother Evelyn (Duncan) back into her and Frank's lives after seven years, in a battle over Mary's future. When Mary starts attending school at the age of seven it is clear to her teacher Bonnie (Slate) that she is far beyond the other children in her class or even her own abilities as a teacher. Frank attempts to raise Mary to be as normal a kid as possible, but she has clearly inherited her mother's intellectual abilities, especially in the field of mathematics. Gifted is a 2017 American drama-comedy directed by Marc Webb (director of (500) Days of Summer and The Amazing Spider-Man Series), starring Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Jenny Slate, and Octavia Spencer.įollowing the suicide of his genius sister, Frank Adler (Evans) takes on the guardianship of his niece Mary (Grace).
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