The great Jerry Lawler once said, "Keep your words soft and sweet because you never know when you'll have to eat them". Basically, be nice to people because you never know what the future may hold. Those wronged in the past could come back to haunt you in terrible ways, and that seems to be the central thrust behind Joel Edgerton's thriller, The Gift.
Written, directed, and starring Edgerton with Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall co-starring, the film centers on a married man who encounters someone from his past, only for that individual to keep showing up with unwanted gifts and disturbing his family. Here's the full synopsis:
Can you really go through life having never wronged anyone? Even if you are unaware of how, or when, and even who you may have wronged....chances are there is someone out there who won't ever forget it...or you. Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) are a young married couple whose life is going just as planned until a chance encounter with an acquaintance from Simon's high school sends their world into a harrowing tailspin. Simon doesn't recognize Gordo (Joel Edgerton) at first, but after a series of uninvited encounters and mysterious gifts prove troubling, a horrifying secret from the past is uncovered after more than 20 years. As Robyn learns the unsettling truth about what happened between Simon and Gordo, she starts to question: how well do we really know the people closest to us, and are past bygones ever really bygones?
The Gift hits theaters on August 7th.
