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* OutlivingTheOffspring: OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler: Mr. King outlives his daughter Jessica after she’s brutally murdered. It also doubles as a tearjerker because there’s no mention of her mother and she’s implied to be an only child.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: Played with. Donnie is not above threatening children.
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* OutlivingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Mr. King outlives his daughter Jessica dies before her father, Mr. King, does. after she’s brutally murdered. It also doubles as a tearjerker because there’s no mention of her mother and she’s implied to be an only child.]]
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* WomanInWhite: Annie often dresses in white and other light colors.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Sheriff Pearl Johnson is skeptical of Annie’s abilities, but he does admit that she was a big help solving Jessica King’s disappearance.
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* InnocentBlueEyes: Annie has these, as do her children.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Donnie. [[spoiler: Also Jessica.]]
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* HappilyMarried: Annie and Ben Senior were this before he died.
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* InTheBlood: According to Annie’s grandmother, her psychic abilities run in the family.
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* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Annie’s full name is actually Annabelle but she never uses it.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: To Annie’s horror, Buddy committed suicide at a mental hospital.]]
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* GoodParents: Annie is shown to be a good mother to her boys. Her late husband is implied to be this as well.
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* CatapultNightmare: Annie is prone to this, usually after she’s DreamingOfThingsToCome.
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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: It’s revealed that Buddy’s father was abusing him sexually and his mother knew but did nothing.]]
* AbusiveSpouse: Donnie does not treat Valerie well at all.
* AbusiveSpouse: Donnie does not treat Valerie well at all.
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* FakeAmerican: Australian actress Cate Blanchette plays American Annie Wilson.
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* SweetTooth: A brief scene shows Annie’s youngest son as this, having eaten the chocolate frosting she was planning to use for a cake.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: The movie was largely inspired by writer Billy Bob Thornton’s mother and her reputed psychic abilities.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Donnie and Jessica cheat on their significant others with each other.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Annie’s husband Ben Wilson Senior has died one year prior to the events of the movie.
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* SouthernGothic: Takes place in Brixton, Georgia.
* WidowWitch: Annie is a widow and suspected of being a witch by half the town.
* WidowWitch: Annie is a widow and suspected of being a witch by half the town.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Keanu Reeves as a wife-beating redneck who, in case he wasn't unlikable enough, casually drops the N-word. It'd be ridiculous [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct if he weren't so effective in the role]]. Creator/SamRaimi must be some kind of savant.
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* MagicRealism: The film is quite realistic, if we do not take into account the visions of the main heroine and TheReveal.
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Annie Wilson is a young widow trying to make ends meet in a small town in Alabama as a clairvoyant. She's booked around the clock by those seeking advice, but the rest of the town sees her either as a [[ConArtist liar]] or a [[HollywoodSatanism witch]]. Annie is [[GotVolunteered called]] [[OccultInvestigator upon]] by those who normally don't ask for her help, however, when [[MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome the daughter of the richest man in town goes missing and the investigation hits a brick wall]]. As she tries to help the investigation, being contacted by the ghost of the missing woman the whole time, her normal duties of being a [[DisappearedDad widowed mother]] and advising some locals with some [[AdultFear very real problems]] of their own begins to fall apart.
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Annie Wilson is a young widow trying to make ends meet in a small town in Alabama as a clairvoyant. She's booked around the clock by those seeking advice, but the rest of the town sees her either as a [[ConArtist liar]] or a [[HollywoodSatanism witch]]. Annie is [[GotVolunteered called]] [[OccultInvestigator [[OccultDetective upon]] by those who normally don't ask for her help, however, when [[MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome the daughter of the richest man in town goes missing and the investigation hits a brick wall]]. As she tries to help the investigation, being contacted by the ghost of the missing woman the whole time, her normal duties of being a [[DisappearedDad widowed mother]] and advising some locals with some [[AdultFear very real problems]] of their own begins to fall apart.
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Annie Wilson is a young widow trying to make ends meet in a small town in Alabama as a clairvoyant. She's booked around the clock by those seeking advice, but the rest of the town sees her either as a [[ConArtist liar]] or a [[HollywoodSatanism witch]]. Annie is [[GotVolunteered called]] [[OccultInvestigator upon]] by those who normally don't ask for her help, however, when [[MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome the daughter of the richest man in town goes missing and the investigation hits a brick wall]]. As she tries to help the investigation, being contacted by the ghost of the missing woman the whole time, her normal duties of being a [[DisappearedDad widowed mother]] and advising some locals with some [[AdultFear very real problems]] of their own begins to fall apart.
Not to be confused with ''Film/TheGift2015''.
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* AdultFear: Annie lost her husband in a factory explosion, Valerie is caught in an extremely abusive marriage, and Buddy has some issues with his father that he can't tell anyone about.
* BlessedWithSuck: Annie can see the future. Shame the future is filled with horrors.
* FaceHeelTurn: Donnie is the only obviously villainous character in the story. [[spoiler: When it turns out he's not the killer, you know this is going to happen.]]
* IronicEcho: Used to great effect a couple of times.
** "Donnie's not crazy enough to kill anybody."
** "She didn't like it when I killed her."
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Averted, though subtly implied. Annie goes on a rant about how the entire situation is the exact opposite of fun when accused of enjoying the theatrical trial, of which she has been made the main attraction. That same trial asked her to read the defense attorney's mind, but she can't.
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A 2000 {{Horror}}/{{Mystery}} film directed by Creator/SamRaimi and starring Creator/CateBlanchett, Creator/KeanuReeves, Giovanni Ribisi, Katie Holmes, Creator/GregKinnear, Creator/HilarySwank, plus a huge list of HeyItsThatGuy actors, Written by Creator/BillyBobThornton and Tom Epperson.
Annie Wilson is a young widow trying to make ends meet in a small town in Alabama as a clairvoyant. She's booked around the clock by those seeking advice, but the rest of the town sees her either as a [[ConArtist liar]] or a [[HollywoodSatanism witch]]. Annie is [[GotVolunteered called]] [[OccultInvestigator upon]] by those who normally don't ask for her help, however, when [[MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome the daughter of the richest man in town goes missing and the investigation hits a brick wall]]. As she tries to help the investigation, being contacted by the ghost of the missing woman the whole time, her normal duties of being a [[DisappearedDad widowed mother]] and advising some locals with some [[AdultFear very real problems]] of their own begins to fall apart.
Not to be confused with ''Film/TheGift2015''.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AdultFear: Annie lost her husband in a factory explosion, Valerie is caught in an extremely abusive marriage, and Buddy has some issues with his father that he can't tell anyone about.
* BlessedWithSuck: Annie can see the future. Shame the future is filled with horrors.
* FaceHeelTurn: Donnie is the only obviously villainous character in the story. [[spoiler: When it turns out he's not the killer, you know this is going to happen.]]
* IronicEcho: Used to great effect a couple of times.
** "Donnie's not crazy enough to kill anybody."
** "She didn't like it when I killed her."
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Averted, though subtly implied. Annie goes on a rant about how the entire situation is the exact opposite of fun when accused of enjoying the theatrical trial, of which she has been made the main attraction. That same trial asked her to read the defense attorney's mind, but she can't.
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