A fortune teller with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has mysteriously disappeared.A fortune teller with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has mysteriously disappeared.A fortune teller with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has mysteriously disappeared.
- Awards
- 11 nominations
Nathan Lee Lewis
- Cornelius
- (as Nathan Lewis)
- Director
- Writers
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBased on Billy Bob Thornton's own mother's reputed psychic abilities.
- GoofsThe cards which Annie uses have nothing to do with fortune telling or prediction. There are called Zener cards and are a deck of twenty five cards, five of each symbol. They are used to test for ESP to see how closely a subject is able to predict their order in the deck or which one is hidden in an envelope.
- SoundtracksTrouble Is A Lonesome Town
Written and Performed by Lee Hazlewood
Courtesy of Okemah Productions - SLR Records
Featured review
Murder-mystery is occasionally too heavy but with strong performances
Delicious combination murder-mystery/character portrait set in the present-day South. Widowed mother of three, who works from home as a psychic and card reader, is pulled against her will into the logistics of a popular local girl's disappearance. Although the brutality inherent in the script is laid on with a trowel by director Sam Raimi, "The Gift", written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson, has some mesmerizing attributes, not the least of which is Cate Blanchett's luminous performance in the lead. The actress is sensational here; whether hesitantly giving out advice to her customers, sympathizing with troubled mechanic Giovanni Ribisi, or standing up to a surprisingly menacing Keanu Reeves, Blanchett is absolutely riveting. The plot is intricately unwound--and with occasionally outrageous detail--and is quite satisfying from start to finish. In a terrible oversight, no Oscar, Golden Globe, or BAFTA nominations (for Blanchett, at the very least) were forthcoming. ***1/2 from ****
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- moonspinner55
- Jan 5, 2002
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- Language
- Also known as
- Những Lá Bài Ma Thuật
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Box office
- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $12,008,642
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,827
- Dec 25, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $44,567,606
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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