The Gift (2000) Script

Script by:Billy Bob Thornton (Screenplay), Tom Epperson (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sam Raimi
Year:2000

Plot:When a local woman disappears and the police can't seem to find any leads, her father turns to a poor young woman with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the arrest of an abusive husband, but did he really do it?
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A Family Thing Script

Script by:Billy Bob Thornton (Writer), Tom Epperson (Writer)
Directed by:Richard Pearce
Year:1996

Plot:Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who died in childbirth; plus, he has a half brother Ray, in Chicago, she wants him to visit. Earl makes the trip, initially receiving a cold welcome from Ray and Ray's son, Virgil. His birth mother's sister, Aunt T., an aged and blind matriarch, takes Earl in tow and insists that the family open up to him.
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