In a dramatic story about the life of the man named Jason Stevens, as that man is a rich young man and lives a great luxury life with his grandfather. Under good conditions and excellent life, his grandfather dies after a while. After his grandfather's death, Jason predicts he will have a huge inheritance, but he discovers that that legacy must be in return and that he must do a series of tasks to obtain that ideal gift.
31 July 1950, Richmond, Virginia, USA
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September 09, 2007
The Ultimate Gift will put you in a diabetic coma.March 17, 2007
Christian charity, in this movie, seems like a side-effect of capitalism.March 17, 2007
If you missed the money-isn't-everything message, an end-credits recap outlines the story's salient points -- if you'd known, you could've skipped the rest.August 22, 2007
This new film moves along smoothly until Grandpa's most preposterous mission - which needlessly drags out the movie -- takes Jason to a severely caricatured Ecuador.March 15, 2007
[James] Garner is good, and so is Brian Dennehy as a crusty ranch owner; Abigail Breslin, playing a leukemia patient, demonstrates that she was not a one-note wonder in Little Miss Sunshine.March 30, 2007
A parabolic film about one selfish young man's spiritual transformation.March 19, 2007
The film squeaks by on a combination of reliable old pros...and appealing newcomers...April 17, 2007
I haven't even read the book, and I know it has to be better than the movie.August 21, 2007
It's Self-Help: The Movie, and it stinks to high heaven.March 18, 2007
The result is a deep desire for those Hollywood execs to remember that Christian doesn't have to equal brain-dead.March 20, 2007
I think urban sophisticates can be people of faith who want to see movies, occasionally, that don't have the four-letter words, and I do embrace religion, but I think they have to be better than this.March 14, 2007
The Ultimate Gift is kind of like a feel-good Saw for churchgoers, minus the sadistic games of death.