The Gift - The dark gift

Movie
German title	The Gift - The dark gift
Original title	The Gift
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2000
length	111 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Sam Raimi
script	Billy Bob Thornton ; Tom Epperson
production	James Jacks ; Gary Lucchesi ; Tom Rosenberg
music	Christopher Young
camera	Jamie Anderson
cut	Arthur Coburn ; Bob Murawski
occupation
	Cate Blanchett : Annie Wilson; Giovanni Ribisi : Buddy Cole; Keanu Reeves : Donnie Barksdale; Katie Holmes : Jessica King; Greg Kinnear : Wayne Collins; Hilary Swank : Valerie Barksdale; Michael Jeter : Gerald Weems; Kim Dickens : Linda; Gary Cole : David Duncan; Rosemary Harris : Annie's grandmother; JK Simmons : Sheriff Pearl Johnson; Chelcie Ross : Kenneth King; John Beasley : Albert Hawkins; Lynnsee Provence : Mike Wilson;
synchronization

The Gift is a film by the American director Sam Raimi . The mystery thriller is based on an original script by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson .

action

Annie - a widow with three children - lives in Brixton, a small town in the southern United States. Her husband died in an explosion at the city's cable factory a year ago. In order to secure her livelihood, she lays the cards for people with her special gift, fortune telling . One of her customers is the mentally disturbed car dealer Buddy, who tells her about a recurring nightmare that includes a blue diamond. She has been trying to help him for several years. She also has trouble with her eldest son, as he has been involved in fights at school several times. When she has to go to the headmaster, she sees Jessica for the first time, who is engaged to the headmaster. She has a disturbing vision of Jessica, who suddenly appears dead, tied up and wrapped in a water-soaking sheets in front of her. She also has an argument with Donnie Barksdale, who regularly beats up his wife Valerie; because Annie had advised Valerie to separate from him, he threatened Annie and her children several times.

Shortly thereafter, Annie lets her friend Linda persuade her to go to a party with her. She catches Jessica in a corner of the house having sex with a local prosecutor. When she returns to her house, a fanatical sermon is playing on the television and her cards form the word Satan on her bed . The window is open and a car can be heard, indicating that the intruder has just left the house. Annie calls the police and suspects Donnie Barksdale; however, the officer does not believe that Donnie broke into her home.

Then, when Jessica King, the fiancee of the headmistress of the town, is reported missing and the police have no further information, she seeks help from Annie. In a dream, Annie sees a body of water, in the tree behind it the wrapped up dead Jessica and in front of it a violinist playing backwards on his instrument. When the police actually find Jessica's body in a nearby pond that belongs to Donnie Barksdale, the latter is arrested.

Later Buddy runs up to her, he has something important to tell her. But Annie gets rid of him because she is in a psychological state herself. Later that evening, Buddy’s mother Annie calls that something bad is going on with Buddy and that she should come immediately. When she arrives there, she sees Buddy's father tied to a chair in his garden, while Buddy beats him with a belt. He talks about how he would have hurt him in his childhood - apparently his father abused him as a child, because his belly with a blue diamond tattooed on it becomes visible under his white undershirt. Finally Buddy showered his father with gasoline and set him on fire. The two women can no longer do anything and call the ambulance. The father is taken to the hospital, Buddy is taken to a mental hospital. Annie seriously reproaches herself for not having been there for Buddy earlier.

Despite Donnie's attorney trying to ridicule Annie and denigrate her gift, Donnie, who had an affair with Jessica, is found guilty.

But the visions of the dead Jessica do not stop, so Annie soon realizes that Donnie is innocent and that Jessica's killer is still roaming free. Since the prosecutor , who also had an affair with Jessica, does not want to reopen the case, Annie turns to Jessica's fiancé Wayne, with whom she begins to fall in love. She drives Wayne to the pond where Jessica's body was found. There Annie has another vision and finally recognizes the killer: It's Wayne. This then tries to kill Annie, but he is overwhelmed by the unexpectedly appearing Buddy. Annie brings the unconscious Wayne to the police, where he confesses to what he did. When Annie testifies that it was Buddy who knocked Wayne down, she learns that Buddy had committed suicide hours earlier by hanging himself in the mental hospital bathroom .

German dubbed version

The German dubbing was done at Film- & Fernseh-Synchron in Munich . Beate Klöckner wrote the dialogue book and also directed the dubbing .

actor	German speaker	role
Cate Blanchett	Petra Einhoff	Annie Wilson
Giovanni Ribisi	Philipp Brammer	Buddy Cole
Keanu Reeves	Ole Pfennig	Donnie Barksdale
Katie Holmes	Natascha Schaff	Jessica King
Greg Kinnear	Frank Röth	Wayne Collins
Hilary Swank	Sandra Schwittau	Valerie Barksdale
Michael Jeter	Erich Ludwig	Gerald Weems
Kim Dickens	Elisabeth Günther	Linda
Gary Cole	Thomas Rauscher	David Duncan
Rosemary Harris	Ursula Traun	Annie's grandmother
JK Simmons	Dirk Galuba	Sheriff Pearl Johnson
Chelcie Ross	Reinhard Glemnitz	Kenneth King
John Beasley	Manfred Erdmann	Albert Hawkins
Rebecca Koon	Katharina Lopinski	Buddy's mother
SD Stephens	Andreas Neumann	Deputy sheriff at the pond
Janell McLeod	Barbara Witow	Mrs. Francis
Stuart Greer	Andreas Neumann	Officer Huggins
Ed Reddick	Tonio von der Meden	Judge
	Wolfgang Schatz	Bailiff