The Gift – “Simon Says…” Watch This New Clip

In this new clip from The Gift, Simon (Jason Bateman) is taken down memory road by Gordo (Joel Edgerton) and you can feel the tension grow. Telling Simon’s wife Robyn (Rebecca Hall) about the “Simon Says” campaign things get slowly more uncomfortable as Gordo looks at his past and how life has treated him compared to Simon. It makes you wonder how a game of “Simon Says” was used against Gordo in those school years, leaving him so bitter.

Still not letting us know what The Gift actually is, I do like this scene as it teases what is to come. Gordo makes a good tool as the bad memory of the past coming back to haunt Simon. Skeletons in the closet never bring back good memories, and I’m sure we are going to learn just how dark the secret is between Gordo and Simon when The Gift comes to UK cinemas August 7.

Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) are a young married couple whose life is going just as planned until a chance encounter with an acquaintance from Simon’s high school sends their world into a harrowing tailspin. Simon doesn’t recognize Gordo (Joel Edgerton) at first, but after a seemingly coincidental series of encounters proves troubling, a horrifying secret from their past is uncovered after nearly 20 years. As Robyn learns the unsettling truth about what happened between Simon and Gordo, she starts to question: how well do we really know the people closest to us, and are past bygones ever really bygones?

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From the producer of Whiplash and The Purge, Jason Blum, comes a chilling psychological thriller that marks the feature directorial debut of acclaimed actor and writer Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, Zero Dark Thirty, Warrior).

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