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Fighting for control over a child prodigy's fate

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Published Thu, Apr 20, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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    MARC Webb launched The Amazing Spider-Man series, introducing Andrew Garfield as the web-slinger in the 2012 action blockbuster and its 2014 sequel; Chris Evans is Captain America to his legion of fanboys.

    Gifted, directed by Webb and starring Evans, is however a contemporary drama about an elevated power unlike any Marvel Comics superhero's.

    Mary Adler (Mckenna Grace), just seven years old, can crunch advanced mathematical theorems. Her genius is clear to see from her very first day at school: she is bored by basic arithmetic, and scornful of her classmates grappling with one-plus-one equals, um ... three?

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