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The Ultimate Gift (2007)
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Reviews Counted:56
Fresh:18
Rotten:38
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Though The Ultimate Gift avoids religious speechifying like other Fox Faith films, it's dramatically inert with flat direction.
Theatrical Release:Mar 9, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $3,178,843
Synopsis: The videotaped will of deceased billionaire Red Stevens (James Garner) includes the "ultimate gift" for his spoiled, sullen grandson Jason (Drew Fuller). A series of tasks meant to turn Jason from... [More]
Starring: Drew Fuller, James Garner, Ali Hillis, Abigail Breslin
Director: Michael O. Sajbel
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Reviews for The Ultimate Gift
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 1.5/5 |
The Ultimate Gift will put you in a diabetic coma. Full Review |
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2/4 |
This new film moves along smoothly until Grandpa's most preposterous mission - which needlessly drags out the movie -- takes Jason to a severely caricatured Ecuador. Full Review |
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1/5 |
It's Self-Help: The Movie, and it stinks to high heaven. Full Review |
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2/4 |
I haven't even read the book, and I know it has to be better than the movie. Full Review |
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 3/5 |
A parabolic film about one selfish young man's spiritual transformation. Full Review |
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I think urban sophisticates can be people of faith who want to see movies, occasionally, that don’t have the four-letter words, and I do embrace religion, but I think they have to be better than this. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The film squeaks by on a combination of reliable old pros...and appealing newcomers... Full Review |
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1/5 |
The result is a deep desire for those Hollywood execs to remember that Christian doesn’t have to equal brain-dead. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Christian charity, in this movie, seems like a side-effect of capitalism. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Veterans Garner and Brian Dennehy give convincing professional performances here, but Fuller is bland. Full Review |
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1/6 |
If you missed the money-isn’t-everything message, an end-credits recap outlines the story’s salient points -- if you’d known, you could’ve skipped the rest. Full Review |
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B- |
[James] Garner is good, and so is Brian Dennehy as a crusty ranch owner; Abigail Breslin, playing a leukemia patient, demonstrates that she was not a one-note wonder in Little Miss Sunshine. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Pretty much what one would expect: a sincere story of redemption delivered with all the low-key execution of one of those Hallmark-backed TV movies of the week. Full Review |
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C |
The Ultimate Gift is kind of like a feel-good Saw for churchgoers, minus the sadistic games of death. Full Review |
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5/10 |
Wholesome and inspirational, it preaches a simplistic "prosperity gospel." Full Review |
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2/4 |
It is message filmmaking so blunt you might be tempted to root for the parasitic reprobate over the saintly old man, and that's just not right. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
If The Ultimate Gift really wanted to embrace a powerful Christian message, it would've made Jason's ordeal truly threatening and genuinely transformative. Full Review |
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