Parents' Guide to The Gift

Parents need to know that The Gift is a 2000 movie in which Cate Blanchett plays a psychic living in the Deep South who begins to have nightmarish visions concerning the recent disappearance of a young bride-to-be. The violence alone makes this something best for older teens and older -- graphic depictions of domestic violence, of a man who ties up his father to a lawn chair in his backyard while whipping him with a belt as he screams of how the father sexually abused him as a young boy before he douses the father in gasoline and lights a match, a young boy is threatened by a violence-prone man while walking down the street before he witnesses another man attack a truck with tire iron before the violence-prone man in the vehicle pulls a gun and puts it to the tire iron-wielding man's head, who begs him to pull the trigger and kill him. There is also nightmarish imagery -- the psychic has dark visions of the woman's naked dead body. The woman who disappears is shown to be sexually promiscuous -- including a scene where she is shown having sex in a country club restroom. Brief topless female nudity. The lead antagonist tells the psychic that she is, "...no better than a Jew or [N-word]." A tween asks his mother what the f-word means. Lots of profanity, including "f--k" and "motherf--ker."

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