The Gift

Cate Blanchett is a widowed mother of three small boys in a southern town. She supports them all by reading the cards -- not Tarot, but what appear to be Duke University cards. She is subject to visions of her dead grandmother and dreams. When Greg Kinnear's fiancee disappears, the police reluctantly call Miss Blanchett, whose vision lead them to drag redneck Keanu Reeves' pond and find the corpse.

Sam Raimi's movie is not a standard horror movie, but a meditation on the oppressiveness of having psychic abilities, or indeed, different. It's populated with quite a distinguished list of actors, including J. K. Simmons, Michael Jeter, Katie Holmes, Hillary Swank, and Rosemary Harris. Given Raimi's varied credits -- he was working on SPIDERMAN while cutting this film -- it offers an interesting vision of what super-powers mean. Or perhaps, if you're not so inclined, some fine work on editing for atmosphere.