Gifted (2017 film)

Gifted (2017 film)

Gifted is a 2017 American comedy-drama film directed by Marc Webb and written by Tom Flynn. It stars Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Jenny Slate and Octavia Spencer. The plot follows an intellectually gifted seven-year-old who becomes the subject of a custody battle. The film was released on April 7, 2017, by Fox Searchlight Pictures.

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Summary Gifted (2017 film)Gifted is a 2017 American comedy-drama film directed by Marc Webb and written by Tom Flynn. It stars Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Jenny Slate and Octavia Spencer. The plot follows an intellectually gifted seven-year-old who becomes the subject of a custody battle between her maternal uncle and maternal grandmother. The film was released on April 7, 2017, by Fox Searchlight Pictures, and grossed USD 43 million worldwide. The screenplay was one of the 70 to make that year’s Black List, and the film is set in St. Petersburg, Florida, although the film was originally set in Savannah, Georgia, because the state was no longer providing financial incentives to the movie makers. It was also filmed in Georgia, as well as in Tybee Island and Emory University in Emory, Florida.

It has been described as a “love story” and “a coming-of-age story about a young girl’s determination and determination to succeed in life and in school” The film is based on the life of Mary Adler, a young Florida girl who is gifted in mathematics. Mary’s mother, Diane, had been a promising mathematician, dedicated to the Navier–Stokes problem, before taking her own life when Mary was six months old. Mary has lived with Frank, a former college professor turned boat repairman, ever since. The principal contacts Frank’s estranged mother and Mary’s maternal grandmother, Evelyn, who seeks to gain custody of Mary and move her to Massachusetts.