Writer-director Joel Edgerton casts himself as Gordy, a strange and mysterious guy who suddenly becomes an unwelcome friend of a happy and ambitious, upwardly mobile couple, Simon, played perfectly by Jason Bateman, and Rebecca Hall as his devoted but high strung wife. Gordy shows up repeatedly at the couples home with gifts and boring but unsettling conversations. It turns out that Gordy and Simon knew each other at the same school as kids. Something bad happened which changed Gordy's life forever. Simon, however, moved on, and the last third of the film explains it all. A good Alfred Hitchcock type ending makes The Gift well worth watching.
