But the child prodigy’s very intelligence attracts the attention of the wealthy maternal grandmother, Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan). She displays a few of her extraordinary math skills to startle her homeroom teacher Bonnie (Jenny Slate). Of course, Mary stands out in her elementary classroom. Worrying that the home-schooled Mary won’t have any friends or real-world experience, Frank enrolls his niece in a local school. Frank tries his best to raise the kid as her late-sister would have wanted to, and his caring neighbor (Octavia Spencer) also chips in. She plays the spirited 7-year-old Mary, raised by her uncle/guardian Frank Adler (Chris Evans) in the calm neighborhood of Florida. The undeniably cute and ‘smart-ass’ child-star McKenna Grace is gifted in Marc Webb’s tear-jerking custody battle drama. Yet the performances keep it grounded and appealing.
Murer deals with the familiar ‘gift-can-be-nurse’ story-line, but Vitus mostly suffers from sloppy turns in the final act. Vitus can truly be himself only with his grandfather (a bewitching performance by the great Bruno Ganz). Dad is an inventor who is too preoccupied with his business. Vitus’ English mother (Julika Jenkins) wants him to be a concert pianist. Murer’s light-hearted and leisurely paced Swiss drama tells the eponymous tale of a 12-year-old piano prodigy (Teo Gheorghiu) who has an IQ of 180. The films mentioned below grapple with such problems or quandary (of kids & teens), some with unflinching profundity and some hide its relevant messages beneath saccharine narrative layers.įredi M. Movies like A Beautiful Mind (2001), Shine (1996), Good Will Hunting (1997), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The End of the Tour (2015), The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016) dealt with super-smart people burdened with mental or emotional problems.
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Gifted children (or prodigy) movies are driven by an intriguing paradox: what if they don’t realize their full potential if not adequately challenged? But what if the pursuit of intense challenges inculcates within them a fear of failure which can adversely impact their childhood and beyond? In a world where individuals can be casually stigmatized for being ‘different’, extraordinary intellect can’t always be a gift.
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