Chris Evans Fights for His Niece in New Trailer for Gifted
Last year, Chris Evans was punching superheroes in the face in Captain America: Civil War but this year, he’s fighting a greater fight…for the custody rights for his prodigiously talented niece in the appropriately titled Gifted.
Directed by Marc Webb – who is downsizing from two Spider-Man movies to more low key indie fare – and written by Tony Flynn, Gifted is a drama about Frank Adler (Evans), a deliberate underachiever, who is raising his niece Mary (McKenna Grace), in rural Florida. When he enrols her in school for the first time, she is labelled as gifted. All Frank wants is for Mary to have a normal life, but standing in his way is her grandmother, his mother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan), and the dilemma that he doesn’t have custody of Mary. So being proactive for once, he sues to win that custody.
Co-staring Octavia Spencer and Jenny Slate, Gifted is in US cinemas on April, 12 2017.
