{"id":105766,"date":"2015-08-07T09:50:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T13:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=105766"},"modified":"2022-10-01T19:34:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T23:34:57","slug":"the-gift-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=105766","title":{"rendered":"Review: <i>The Gift<\/i> (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/large_iQJlUncXv4mSR96XAKwD77MJwfV.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/large_iQJlUncXv4mSR96XAKwD77MJwfV.jpg\" alt=\"large_iQJlUncXv4mSR96XAKwD77MJwfV\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/large_iQJlUncXv4mSR96XAKwD77MJwfV.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/large_iQJlUncXv4mSR96XAKwD77MJwfV-67x100.jpg 67w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/large_iQJlUncXv4mSR96XAKwD77MJwfV-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/large_iQJlUncXv4mSR96XAKwD77MJwfV-267x400.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nActor Joel Edgerton (whom I have had a crush on since <i>Zero Dark Thirty<\/i>) steps into the director&#8217;s chair with <i>The Gift<\/i>, also acting, and he also wrote the script. It&#8217;s terrific! Great psychological thriller, with excellent performances from Edgerton, Jason Bateman, and Rebecca Hall. <\/p>\n<p>My review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/the-gift-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>The Gift<\/i> is now up at Rogerebert.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Joel Edgerton (whom I have had a crush on since Zero Dark Thirty) steps into the director&#8217;s chair with The Gift, also acting, and he also wrote the script. It&#8217;s terrific! Great psychological thriller, with excellent performances from Edgerton, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=105766\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2673,2668,2559],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105766"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148378,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105766\/revisions\/148378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}