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Gifted is a 2017 American 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 $43 million worldwide. At the 23rd Critics Choice Awards, Mckenna Grace was nominated for Best Young Performer. Plot In St. Petersburg, Florida, seven-year-old Mary Adler lives with her uncle and de facto guardian, Francis "Frank". Her best friend is her 43-year-old neighbor, Roberta Taylor. On her first day of first grade, she shows remarkable mathematical talent, which impresses her teacher, Bonnie Stevenson. There, despite her initial disdain for average children her own age and her boredom with their classwork, she begins to bond with them when she brings her one-eyed cat, Fred, for show-and-tell. Later, she defends a classmate from a bully on the school bus by hitting the bully in the face. After the incident, the principal encourages Frank to send Mary to a private school for gifted children, offering the opportunity of a scholarship. However, Frank turns it down. Based on his family's experiences with similar schools, he fears Mary will not have a chance at a "normal" childhood. It emerges that Mary's mother, Diane, had been a promising mathematician, dedicated to the Navier–Stokes problem (one of the unsolved Millennium Prize Problems) 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. Evelyn believes that Mary is a "one-in-a-billion" mathematical prodigy who should be specially tutored in preparation for a life devoted to mathematics, much as Diane was. However, Frank is adamant that his sister would want Mary to be in a normal public school and have the childhood she did not have. In court, Frank argues that Evelyn's parenting deprived Diane of normal life; Evelyn had sent away a boy Diane was in love with, which was when Diane first attempted suicide. Evelyn argues that Frank is in no position to be a guardian, working a low-paying job without health insurance. Worried that the judge will rule against him and he will lose Mary completely, Frank accepts a compromise brokered by his lawyer that sees Mary placed in foster care and attend the private school where Evelyn wants to have her enrolled. The foster parents live 25 minutes from Frank's home, Frank will be entitled to scheduled visits, and Mary will be able to decide where she wants to live after her 12th birthday. Mary is devastated at being placed in foster care, and her foster father says she refuses to see Frank. When Bonnie sees a picture of Fred up for adoption, she alerts Frank. Frank retrieves the cat from the pound and, learning that Fred was brought in due to allergy issues, realizes that Evelyn, who is allergic to cats, is overseeing Mary's education in the guest house of Mary's foster home. He then reveals to Evelyn, who had been a mathematician herself, that Diane had solved the Navier–Stokes problem but stipulated that the solution was to be withheld until Evelyn's death. Knowing that it meant everything to Evelyn to see Diane solve the problem, Frank offers Evelyn the opportunity to publish Diane's work if she drops her objection to him having custody of Mary. Evelyn agrees. The film ends with Mary back in the custody of Frank, returning to public school and socializing with children her age while taking college-level courses. Cast Production In December 2014, Tom Flynn's screenplay was one of the 70 to make that year's Black List. In August 2015, it was announced Chris Evans had been cast in the film, with Marc Webb directing. In September 2015, Mckenna Grace, Octavia Spencer, Lindsay Duncan and Jenny Slate joined the cast, and in November 2015, Julie Ann Emery was also added.Filming began in October 2015 in Savannah, Georgia, as well as in Tybee Island, Georgia. and finished in November 2015. Specific locations included May Howard Elementary School in Wilmington Island, Georgia and Emory University in Atlanta.Although the film is set in St. Petersburg, Florida, screenwriter Tom Flynn was unable to convince the producers to film in Florida, because the state was no longer providing financial incentives to movie makers; that made Georgia a more financially viable option.Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg, who was himself a child prodigy, was a mathematics consultant for the film; Webb contacted him after reading his article in The Wall Street Journal and asked him to share his experiences. Ellenberg also cameos as a professor lecturing on the partition function and Ramanujan's congruences. Release The film was scheduled to be released on April 12, 2017, but was pushed up to April 7, 2017. Box office Gifted grossed $24.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $18.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $43 million against a production budget of $7 million.The film went wide on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, and in its opening weekend grossed $3.1 million, finishing 6th at the box office. In its second weekend of wide expansion, it added more screens, and made $4.6 million, an increase of 47.5% from the previous week. Critical response On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, Gifted has an approval rating of 73% based on 173 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Gifted isn't quite as bright as its pint-sized protagonist, but a charming cast wrings respectably engaging drama out of a fairly predictable premise." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 60 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.Colin Covert of the Star Tribune gave the film 3/4 stars, saying, "Sure, it's a simple, straightforward film, but sometimes that's all you need as long as its heart is true." On Evans' performance, Owen Gleiberman of Variety said, "Chris Evans, abashed and rumpled, with a grease monkey’s can’t-be-bothered-to-shave beard, gives an engaged performance, exuding a homespun warmth we haven’t seen in the “Captain America” films." Richard Roeper gave the film 4 out of 4 stars and said, "Gifted isn't the best or most sophisticated or most original film of the year so far – but it just might be my favorite." Accolades See also Proof, about a complex proof written by a mathematician or his daughter Little Man Tate, similar theme of prodigy and reluctance of the single parent to accept their need for better education List of films about mathematiciansR.... Discover the Lindsay Mckenna popular books. 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Best Seller Lindsay Mckenna Books of September 2021
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneySeptember 7, 2021$14.99AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends . Alice, a noveli...
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins ReidJune 13, 2017$13.99NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “If you ’ re looking for a book to take on holiday this summer, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has got all the glitz and glamour to make it a perfect beach r...
Harlem Shuffle
Colson WhiteheadSeptember 14, 2021$14.99From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys , a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 196...
It Ends with Us
Colleen HooverAugust 2, 2016$11.99In this “brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn’t let go, long after you’ve finished it” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author) from the #1 New ...
Silent Strike
Melinda ColtSeptember 21, 2021$0.99Detectives Aidan Connor and Jenna Darcy never had compassion for vigilantes—until now. A politician’s murder is always big news, but Detective Aidan Connor isn’t sure if landing the hi...
Vanderbilt
Anderson Cooper & Katherine HoweSeptember 21, 2021$14.99New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary Ame...
An Impossible Promise
Jude Deveraux & Tara SheetsSeptember 21, 2021$9.99“Time travel romance at its best!”—Fresh Fiction on Chance of a Lifetime They can’t be together, but they can’t stay apart… Liam O’Connor has one purpose in this life—to push...
Peril
Bob Woodward & Robert CostaSeptember 21, 2021$14.99The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history. But as # 1 internationally bestselling author ...
The Jailhouse Lawyer
James Patterson & Nancy AllenSeptember 20, 2021$14.99From James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling author: a young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown—and ends up in jail herself. In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the...
The Love Story of Missy Carmichael
Beth MorreyApril 7, 2020$2.99For readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and A Man Called Ove , a life-affirming, deeply moving "coming-of-old" story, a celebration of how ordinary days are made extraordinary thr...
Riccardino
Andrea Camilleri & Stephen SartarelliSeptember 21, 2021$11.99The long-awaited last novel in the transporting and beloved New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano series "At eighty, I foresaw Montalbano's departure from the scene, I got the idea...
Enemy at the Gates
Vince Flynn & Kyle MillsSeptember 14, 2021$14.99Picking up where the “tour de force” ( The Providence Journal ) Total Power left off, the next thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series follows the CIA’s top ope...
Apples Never Fall
Liane MoriartySeptember 14, 2021$14.99From Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers , comes Apples Never Fall , a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the ...
Crazy Faith
Michael ToddSeptember 21, 2021$12.99From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Relationship Goals . . . Will you be remembered as a person who claimed to follow God but liked to play it safe? Or as a person who lived you...
Forgotten in Death
J. D. RobbSeptember 7, 2021$14.99In the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas sifts through the wreckage of the past to find a killer. The body was left in a dumpster like s...
Faking It with #41
Piper RayneSeptember 21, 2021$2.99Fake. Being the heir to Jacobs Enterprises, I’ve been around fake people my entire life. I promised myself a long time ago that I wouldn’t change for anyone. Which is the only reason I...
HOT Storm
Lynn Raye HarrisSeptember 21, 2021$4.99She changed her name. Her look. Her location. But what if running away isn’t enough to save her? Physical therapist Scarlett Reed is looking for a fresh start when she takes a job in anoth...
Change Sings
Amanda Gorman & Loren LongSeptember 21, 2021$10.99A lyrical picture book debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long "I ...
The Love Hypothesis
Ali HazelwoodSeptember 14, 2021$9.99A BuzzFeed Best Summer Read of 2021 When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into c...
A Slow Fire Burning
Paula HawkinsAugust 31, 2021$14.99AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The scorching new thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. “ A Slow Fire Burning twists and turns lik...
It
Stephen KingJanuary 1, 2016$2.99It: Chapter Two —now a major motion picture! Stephen King’s terrifying, classic #1 New York Times bestseller, “a landmark in American literature” ( Chicago Sun-Times )—about seven ...
Not Like He Seemed (An Ilse Beck FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 2)
Ava StrongSeptember 21, 2021$3.99The FBI desperately needs Ilse’s help to catch the “Alphabet Killer”—an unhinged serial killer who seems to be arranging his victims’ bodies in the shapes of letters. Is he spellin...
Risky Bargain
Barbara FreethySeptember 21, 2021$5.99"RISKY BARGAIN is a fast-paced, action-packed Romantic Suspense that is both a complex thriller and a heart-warming romance. It’ll blow your socks off and make you feel warm and fuzzy, all...
Uncontrolled Spread
Scott GottliebSeptember 21, 2021$14.99Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America’s COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything? In Uncontrolled Spread, he shows how the coronavirus and its variants were...
How to Save a Life
Lynette RiceSeptember 21, 2021$14.99The first inside story of one of TV's most popular and beloved dramas, Grey's Anatomy . More than fifteen years after its premiere, Grey’s Anatomy remains one of the most beloved dramas on...
The Perfect Image (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book Sixteen)
Blake PierceSeptember 21, 2021$7.99“A masterpiece of thriller and mystery. Blake Pierce did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their f...
Killian
Dale MayerSeptember 21, 2021$4.99Killian is called up to retrieve a woman who’s been kidnapped, then escaped, only to be captured again. With a sketchy SOS coming in, Killian’s tracking her from Vancouver to the far rea...
For Love Or Honey
Staci HartSeptember 21, 2021$4.99When the devil comes to town, you have to meet him head-on.<br> Which is exactly what I did when Grant Stone rolled into our small Texas town, driving a sports car I could fit in the b...
Last Round
Charity FerrellSeptember 21, 2021$3.99SPECIAL PREORDER PRICE! What’s the best way to get back at your cheating ex? Give every guy who hits on you his number. That’s what I did when I met Silas. Little did I...
Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone
Phaedra PatrickMay 16, 2017$1.99Soon to be a Hallmark Original Movie! “A perfect read for lovers of Antoine Laurain's The Red Notebook, Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, and Fredrik Backman's A Man Called...
Dirty Rich Cinderella Story
Lisa Renee JonesMay 23, 2018$0.99A SEXY, STANDALONE FORBIDDEN BOSS ROMANCE! SEDUCED FOR A NIGHT. TAKEN FOREVER. With only nine months left at Stanford, and despite being top of her law school class, Lori Havens takes leave ...
The Contrarian
Max ChafkinSeptember 21, 2021$14.99A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and ...
Under the Whispering Door
TJ KluneSeptember 21, 2021$13.99An Indie Next Pick! A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door , a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller Th...
The Burning
Jonathan Kellerman & Jesse KellermanSeptember 21, 2021$14.99Things get personal for Deputy Coroner Clay Edison when a murder hits close to home in this riveting, emotional thriller from the bestselling father-son team who write “brilliant, page-tur...
Bewilderment: A Novel
Richard PowersSeptember 21, 2021$14.99Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling au...
The Lost Symbol
Dan BrownSeptember 15, 2009$9.99#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • An intelligent, lightning-paced thriller s et within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., with surprises at every turn. • Don’t miss...
Battle Cry
Jason WilsonSeptember 21, 2021$9.99Countering a culture that coerces men to suppress instead of express, Jason Wilson calls readers to unlearn society's definition of masculinity and discover the power of engaging with a...
Person of Interest
J. Warner WallaceSeptember 21, 2021$9.99Can the truth about Jesus be uncovered--even without a body or a crime scene? Join cold-case detective and bestselling author J. Warner Wallace as he investigates Jesus using an innovat...
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura DaveMay 4, 2021$13.99#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SELECTION OF THE REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB A HIGHLY ANTICIPATED, BEST BOOK OF SUMMER SELECTED BY * VOGUE * USA TODAY * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * CNN * TOWN & ...
The Legacy
Elle KennedySeptember 21, 2021$5.99The international bestselling Off-Campus series returns with a collection of four novellas by New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy! This brand-new installment provides the much-ant...
Dune: The Lady of Caladan
Brian Herbert & Kevin J. AndersonSeptember 21, 2021$14.99From Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: The Lady of Caladan is a brand new novel in the internationally bestselling Dune series. Lady Jessica, mother of Paul, and consort to Leto Atr...
Daughter of the Morning Star
Craig JohnsonSeptember 21, 2021$14.99A new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. When Lolo Long's niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sheriff W...
The Night She Disappeared
Lisa JewellSeptember 7, 2021$12.99“Utterly gripping with richly drawn, hugely compelling characters, this is a first-class thriller with heart.” —Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author “Insane suspense.” —...
Tisha
Robert SpechtJuly 1, 1984$2.99The beloved real-life story of a woman in the Alaskan wilderness, the children she taught, and the man she loved. “From the time I’d been a girl, I’d been thrilled with the idea...
Billy Summers
Stephen KingAugust 3, 2021$14.99#1 New York Times Bestseller From legendary storyteller Stephen King, whose “restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained” ( The New York Times Book Review ), comes a thrilli...
The Dishonored Viscount
Sophie BarnesSeptember 21, 2021$5.99He knows he doesn't deserve her, yet he can't get her out of his mind… Stripped of his title because of a crime his father committed, Marcus Berkly has struggled to find a new place for hi...
A Darker Reality
Anne PerrySeptember 21, 2021$13.99A personal trip turns perilous for Elena Standish after the murder of a British spy forces her to face dark family secrets in this exciting 1930s mystery by bestselling author Anne Perr...
When Sparks Fly
Helena HuntingSeptember 21, 2021$7.99Charming, hilarious, and emotional... When Sparks Fly is Helena Hunting at her very best! Avery Spark is living her best life. Between her friends, her sisters, and Spark House, the event ho...
Inmate of the Month
Lani Lynn ValeSeptember 21, 2021$5.99A porn video changed his life. One second, he has an ex with an ax to grind, and the next, he’s internet famous—and definitely not in a good way. In an, it’ll ruin your career, kind of...
Beneath the Wreckage
Catherine CowlesSeptember 21, 2021$3.99It was supposed to be a summer we’d never forget. Instead, everything was stolen from me. The best friend who was more like a sister. The innocent way I looked at life. Leaving...
Best Seller Lindsay Mckenna Audio Books of September 2021
- Peril (Unabridged)Bob Woodward & Robert Costa$14.99
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- The Rules of Magic (Unabridged)Alice Hoffman$3.99
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- Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (Unabridged)David Goggins$21.99
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- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Unabridged)James Clear$14.99
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- Enemy at the Gates (Unabridged)Vince Flynn$14.99
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- A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life (Unabridged)Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein$14.99
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