First Trailer For THE GIFT, A Psychological Thriller Directed By Joel Edgerton

Well, this is a nice surprise. Here's the first trailer for The Gift, the directorial debut of actor Joel Edgerton (he also wrote the screenplay). It stars Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall as a married couple, and Edgerton himself as a former acquaintance of Bateman's character who inserts himself into their lives and becomes a menace as he hints at a dark secret.

Edgerton has been a part of the Australian film collective Blue Tongue Films for years, so I'm excited to see his breakout directorial feature. The movie hails from a new company called STX Entertainment, and they've teamed with Blumhouse Productions (Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Whiplash) to bring it to theaters. It looks pretty good to me — almost like a throwback to '90s films like Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear and the Michael Keaton movie Pacific HeightsThe Gift arrives on July 31st.

Can you really go through life having never wronged anyone? Even if you are unaware of how, or when, and even who you may have wronged....chances are there is someone out there who won't ever forget it...or you.

Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) are a young married couple whose life is going just as planned until a chance encounter with an acquaintance from Simon's high school sends their world into a harrowing tailspin. Simon doesn't recognize Gordo (Joel Edgerton) at first, but after a seemingly coincidental series of encounters proves troubling, a horrifying secret from their past is uncovered after nearly 20 years. As Robyn learns the unsettling truth about what happened between Simon and Gordo, she starts to question: how well do we really know the people closest to us, and are past bygones ever really bygones?

From the producer of Whiplash and The Purge, Jason Blum, comes a chilling psychological thriller that marks the feature directorial debut of acclaimed actor and writer Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, Zero Dark Thirty, Warrior).

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