Mystery cases have gone undetected and unsolved all over the world today, leaving cold cases in its wake. However, some police tasks are relying on the aid from people with gifted abilities or the sixth sense to unravel these cases as a last resort. People with these gift abilities had worn the label as freaks or devil worshippers to witches. But, today paranormal activity is becoming the center attention all over the world. Sam Raimi brings a psychological thriller to action life from a script written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson. The police become baffled on a crime in a small town of Georgia and seek the assistance from a fortuneteller, Annie Wilson. Annie, who is played by Cate Blanchett, is more of a therapist than a fortuneteller and is the key to the puzzle in The Gift.
Annie Wilson is a widow of three small boys in the town of Brixton, Georgia. She deals with the guilt that she could have avoided her husband’s death from the explosion of the plant that he worked at. Annie raises her children on what little social security she gets and the donations she receives from her clients during readings. Annie’s oldest son gets into trouble at school and she meets the principal Wayne Collins (Greg Kinnear) and his fiancé Jessica King (Katie Holms). Here she sees water surrounding the feet of Jessica King. Even though Annie’s gift helps her clients, but the gift doesn’t exactly work in her favor. She deals with threats and verbal abuse from Donnie Barksdale (Keanu Reeves) when he finds out that his wife, Valerie (Hilary Swank), is getting information from Annie and that she suggest Valerie to leave her abusive husband. Jessica King goes missing and there are no leads. Kenneth King and the police come to Annie for assist...
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...r WB’s show Dawson Creek, gives her fans something to awe over as she strips naked. However, I feel the screen writing could have been a little less vulgar. The plot is a prevalent issue of sexual envy in a small town with its twist and turns, especially, J.K. Simmons cynical beliefs and Michael Jeter, who plays the lawyer.
The Gift is a really proficient example that physic readers face when assisting the police in their field of work. I don’t recommend this movie for everybody since it is rated R with some brief nudity, obscenity, and some terrifying scenes. However, I do recommend it for those who are skeptical because it is based on a story that happened in real life. The gift uses a supernaturalism as a mode that compels you to suspend your skepticism and experience the perplexity and vulnerability that complement the insight like what Annie Wilson observes.
On a drive on Highway 50, through Nevada to see a real ghost town, Agnes finds a little girl named Rebecca who has been separated by her family who was looking Leister 's gold. The capper of the whole thing is that Agnes saw the whole thing in a dream, but she gets to the Goldberg Hotel and Saloon, she realizes the whole thing was real, especially the inside of her room. She soon finds out that the entire hotel is haunted by all kinds of spirits from past guests; which only serves to make Agnes 's vacation that much more interesting. She wants to find out what happened to the family. She knows with every fiber of her being that it was not just a dream, and that a little girl really did go missing in the night before Agnes showed up. Will they be able to find the missing kid or will a killer (called “The Cutter”) ruin their
This setting is in a haunted house in Idaho. Paige experiences some supernatural existences. She heard noises coming from her brother Logan's room but she didn't mention it to her mom or Logan because she didn't think it was that big of a deal. Then she started telling her mom, but her mom thought she was sick of thinking about all of this. Her mom took her to see a therapist. Paige knew that something was going on in her house, she knew that there was something wrong going on in there. She was too afraid to say that and it backfired on her. If she would of spoke up, her family could have solved this problem before it got out of control.
The film is lead by Kristen Wiig, who plays Annie, a broke and lovelorn, soon-to-be maid of honor, who attem...
The Simple Gift is a free verse novel and a compelling story of a 16 year old boy, Billy who leaves his abusive fathers home and dull schooling life, anticipating for something better than what he left behind. He finds a home in an abandoned freight train outside a small town. He falls in love with a wealthy girl Caitlin and befriends a fellow train resident, Old Bill. Billy is voluntarily homeless but now has a future that he did not have before. This book is a life-affirming look at the characteristics of humanity, generosity and love.
Christmas has consumed itself. At its conception, it was a fine idea, and I imagine that at one point its execution worked very much as it was intended to. These days, however, its meaning has been perverted; its true purpose ignored and replaced with a purpose imagined by those who merely go through the motions, without actually knowing why they do so.
This film is a romantic comedy that encompasses screen chemistry as a stunning gold-digger and divorce lawyer demonstrates romantic feelings in a court as well as in courtship. Miles Massey, a top divorce attorney is Los Angeles is the king of the prenuptial contract, The Massey Pre-Nup, which had never succeeded in law courts. Oozing with success and charm, Miles longs for a new trial in his life and meets gorgeous Marylin Rexroth. With his experience, Miles defeats Marylin in a divorce case from her wealthy and train-fetishist husband, Rex Rexroth. Miles is openly infatuated by the glamour of Marylin, who is planning to revenge against Miles although she is also attracted to him. Unfortunately, she marr...
In conclusion I think The Gift is a very well written powerful story about friendship, sacrifice, feminism, strength, compassion, and doing the right thing. The mango is a wonderful symbol for the story and what took place. There would be no story with out it. The way the author wrote it keeps you reading and interested yet builds tension at the same time. Merceditas and Carlotta have an amazing, pure friendship that makes this story what it is.
...her father’s intense racism and discrimination so she hid the relationship at all costs. Connie realized that she could never marry an African American man because of her father’s racial intolerance. If she were to have a mixed child, that child would be greatly discriminated against because of hypodecent. One day, Connie’s dad heard rumors about her relationship so he drove her car to the middle of nowhere, and tore it apart. Then, he took his shotgun and went to look for Connie and her boyfriend. Connie was warned before her father found her, and she was forced to leave town for over six months. Connie’s father burned her clothes, so she had to leave town with no car, no clothes and no money at sixteen years old. Connie had lived in poverty her entire life, but when she got kicked out she learned to live with no shelter and sometimes no food at all.
The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick explores the causes and challenges of homelessness in today's youth. It highlights the struggles that a victim of homelessness would go through, such as finding a place to sleep every night, and finding a source of food and money. The Simple Gift also showed some causes of homelessness, which were demonstrated in the book through out the story.
The Christmas Sweater is about a boy named Edward Lee who is twelve years old. In the beginning of the book his father has passed away and his mother is taking him to see his grandparents. He started talking about how his father bought a bakery when he was young. The bakery was called the City Bakery. He talked about how his father enjoyed baking and he could bake very well. He used to makes breads and different desserts. He used to help his father in the bakery. One day he noticed that Mrs. Olsen who was a customer paid his father with a food stamp. Eddie thought that his father was just scammed, but his father told him what a food stamp was. He explained that it was for people who had a financial situation, he told Eddie that Mrs. Olsen was someone who needed it. There was also a man who had food stamps, but Eddie's father said that the man could work, but he chooses not to. On Christmas Eve, he and his mother would go visit his grandparents. Eddie loved to go visit his grandparents, he would play cards with his grandfather and they would also go around the house and look for thei...
When a wife surprises her husband on his birthday, an ironic turn of events occurs. Katherine Brush’s “The Birthday Party” is a short story about relationships, told from the perspective of a nearby observer. Brush uses the words and actions of the married couple to assert that a relationship based on selfishness is weak.
We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others” (97). In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, no one has seen a rainbow after a storm, no one knew what colors were; what choosing was; what it meant to be an individual. Everyone lived in complete Sameness, and never learned what it meant to be an individual. By eliminating as much self expression as possible in Sameness and society, Jonas's community has rejected the individuality of a society where people are free to move society forward. In The Giver individuality is represented by colors, memories, and pale eyes.
Christmas spirit can be defined in many different ways and mean many different things. For some people it can be giving to other or it can just spending time together with the people you love. Personally, I don’t really give for Christmas because I always felt like giving was only providing material happiness. Generally for Christmas I just spend time with the family and have fun, laugh and catchup on all the things that has happened over the year. Ebenezer Scrooge on the other hand, lack all of these traits therefore he is regarded as having no Christmas spirit. Scrooge said Christmas was a humbug, refusing to spend time with his family, not giving to anyone and keeping to himself on Christmas. To Scrooge, Christmas was just a waste of time as he makes his worker Bob Cratchit work for grueling hours at low pay, refuses his nephew Fred's Christmas dinner invitation, and turns away two charitable workers seeking donations for the poor.
Two weeks after her father’s funeral, our protagonist Annie sees his ghost in her bathroom. Knowing he is dead, they small talk about her boyfriend, their farm, their deceased family etc. until he suddenly vanishes. Her father makes occasional appearances after that. They keep talking about everyday life until one night at the Opera House, where she not only sees her father, but her brother and mother as well. Knowing where to find them, she takes her goodbye with her dead family.