Fox Searchlight has released the trailer for Marc Webb‘s (500 Days of Summer, The Amazing Spider-Man) upcoming film, Gifted, starring Chris Evans as a single father raising a daughter (Mckenna Grace) who turns out to be a mathematical prodigy. The film also stars Jenny Slate, Octavia Spencer, and Lindsay Duncan.
Gifted opens in theaters April 12, 2017.
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Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is a single man raising a child prodigy – his spirited young niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) – in a coastal town in Florida. Frank’s plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old’s mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank’s formidable mother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary. Octavia Spencer plays Roberta, Frank and Mary’s landlady and best friend. Jenny Slate is Mary’s teacher, Bonnie, a young woman whose concern for her student develops into a connection with her uncle as well.
