4/1/2023 0 Comments Gifted movieOn the school bus one day, Mary witnesses bullying and she stands up for the victim, breaking the nose of the bully who's five years her senior. When he got back, Diane had committed suicide in the bathroom, and Mary was in his living room. She said she needed to talk to him but Frank, already late for a date, told her they'd talk when he got back. Diane, her sister, appeared at her doorstep out of the blue one night with Mary, who was just a baby at the time. She then confronts Frank at the bar she knows he hangs out on Friday nights and learns the back story. Bonnie then does her own research and finds out that Mary's mom Diane was a Math genius, also, working on one of the Millennium Prize problems when she apparently took her own life and was survived by her brother Frank. Frank chalks it off to some simple algorithm he's taught her and walks away before Bonnie can discuss the matter with him any further. When Frank comes to pick Mary up, Bonnie catches up to him on the front yard and tells him she thinks Mary might be a gifted child. As soon as she introduces herself to the children, Mary demands to know if she's "the boss", and upon confirmation, demands that she call Frank right away and tell him to get her out of there. After recess, the Principal requests a walk-in observation of Bonnie's class. Bonnie warns her for speaking out of turn and starts asking her increasingly difficult arithmetic problems to make a point. Mary eventually speaks up, making it known that the lack of challenge is beyond her ability to bear. At school, Mary is shown bored out of her mind as Bonnie ( Jenny Slate), her teacher, goes over first-grade math problems with the rest of the class. Roberta isn't convinced, but there's nothing she can do, so she lets go. Frank tries to calm her down, saying Mary needs friends and social skills. She tells him to get in his car and bring Mary back before it's too late, afraid that she will be taken away once everyone realizes she's a child prodigy. As soon as he sees the reluctant, sulking Mary off to school, he's confronted by Roberta ( Octavia Spencer), who's his landlady and friend, and cares deeply for Mary. She wants Frank ( Chris Evans) to continue homeschooling her, but he says he's taught her everything he knows, and she needs the experience. In the morning of her first day at school, Mary ( Mckenna Grace) is in a foul mood because she doesn't want to go. Not agreeing with any of Frank's choices, Evelyn sues for full custody, which brings into light the entire dynamic that existed and exists between Evelyn, Frank and Diane. Although Miss Stevenson, like Frank, wants what's best holistically for Mary, the process to provide an advanced education to Mary at the expense of all else begins to snowball to the point where Evelyn learns of Frank and Mary's whereabouts. Although Frank cautions Mary about not being too "obvious" at school, Mary's teacher, Bonnie Stevenson, quickly discovers not only Mary's advanced math abilities, but her background being Diane's daughter. Roberta routinely sits with Mary to allow Frank his regular Friday out at the bar for himself. Frank, who has largely treated Mary like an equal in being up front with her about most things, has now decided to send Mary to a regular public school in an effort to socialize her to other children and to make her feel like a normal child, with their neighbor, adult Roberta Taylor, Mary's only real friend besides Frank. Frank has home schooled Mary up until now in an effort to protect her from people like who he was escaping from, his and Diane's own mother, uncompromising (to use Frank's vernacular) Evelyn Adler, who, if she had custody, would have had a singular focus in the math prodigy aspect of Mary, much like she was with Diane. Like her mother, Mary is a math prodigy, of which Frank is well aware. At the time, Frank was a Philosophy professor at Boston University, he moving with Mary in an effort to "escape". Single Frank Adler, who works as a freelance boat repairman and lives in a trailer park on the Florida coast, has been guardian to his seven year old niece Mary Adler since she was a newborn after her mother, Frank's sister, Diane Adler, committed suicide.
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