Kiss The Girls / The Gift

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Double Feature includes: "Kiss The Girl" - Washington DC detective Dr. Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) travels to North Carolina to investigate the apparent kidnapping of his niece (Gina Ravera). Aided by escaped kidnapee Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd), Cross hunts down the kidnapper, who operates under the pseudonym "Casanova." "The Gift" - Take a pinch of psychic phenomenon, add a dash of Southern gothic, stir in a sharp cast of talented actors, and you'll come up with "The Gift," director Sam Raimi's ingenious gumbo of a thriller. It doesn't hold together as well as Raimi's earlier "A Simple Plan," but the two films are stylistically connected - "The Gift" was cowritten (with Tom Epperson) by "A Simple Plan's" costar, Billy Bob Thornton, who in turn draws from the Deep South milieu that informed his own "Sling Blade" and his earlier collaboration with Epperson, "One False Move." A similar sense of mystery permeates "The Gift," in which a small-town Georgia psychic (perfectly played by Cate Blanchett) is tormented by tragic loss and visions connected to the murder of a local vamp (Katie Holmes) whose schoolteacher fiance (Greg Kinnear) is a prime suspect.