The Gifted (film)

The Gifted is a 2014 Filipino dark comedy drama film produced by Viva Films. The film stars Anne Curtis, Sam Milby and Cristine Reyes. Produced by Viva Films and MVP Entertainment and directed by Chris Martinez, The film was released on September 3, 2014.^[1]

Plot

Marco Yuzon (Sam Milby), is on a bookstore for a book signing event for his new book entitled, The Gifted. He begins the book signing by reading a few chapters of the book and so the story goes:

A young Zoe Tuazon (Abby Bautista), a rich, overweight, aggressive and genius mestiza, with a young Aica Tabayoyong (Alliya Fatima dela Riva), a poor, far sighted, and abnormally large teeth girl, enter a school with their parents for an entrance exam. Both of the students' abnormal brain intelligence are not accepted by the school and transferred to a higher school with better education. Both of them excel in different subjects such as Mathematics, English, History. One day, during a Religion Class, Zoe ruins her reputation by questioning the teacher's lesson. Then, the next day, Aica also ruins her name when she defecates during a Music lesson. The two, now outcasts, become good friends and plot evil plans on the school by poisoning students and a teacher, and booby- trapping the nun who Zoe questioned. The whole school fears them until high school came, Zoe (Anne Curtis) and Aica (Cristine Reyes), are fighting for the Valedictorian position. Zoe's mother (Arlene Muhlach) convinces her to find Aica's weakness to get the throne. A new student, Mark Ferrer (who was also played by Sam Milby), an illiterate athlete, enters the school. Aica immediately falls in love with him leading Zoe to plot her evil plan. Nicole meets up with Mark and insisted him to fall in love with Aica while Zoe does his home works, and even make him copy her answers on quizzes. Not being attracted to Aica, Mark forces himself to date her. As the plan goes on, final exams were finished and the distribution of cards took place

On the course of their college lives, Aica graduated as a Mathematics Major in Ateneo and Zoe graduated as a Neuro Science Major in Princeton both Suma Cum Laudes. Before returning to the Philippines, Zoe undergoes Plastic Surgery and becomes insanely beautiful, so does Aica. Both are now models and when both of them learns each other's success, it angers them both leading to Zoe bumping on Mark, now a literate and American graduate. Angering Zoe, she plots another revenge on Aica and shows everybody the animated video version of Aica defecating to the reunion that took place a few days later. Aica follows Zoe to her house and as she enters, a booby trap almost kills Aica (a shot gun). After several minutes of Zoe trying to kill Aica, Zoe finally gives up after Aica almost drowns her. The two made up when suddenly, Zoe reveals it was just an act and points a gun at Aica. Aica runs for her life only to bump into Mark, who shielded Aica from the blow, wounding his face.

Marco Yuzon, having finished reading the book, started his signing and left the bookstore. On the parking area, a girl slams the book on his windshield revealing her to be Aica and with her was Zoe in their real appearances (unattractive and heavyweight). The two, whose real names are Mica (Aica) and Joey (Zoe) were very mad with Marco who was in fact their classmate since Elementary. Due to insecurity of them being always on the top and he was always third place, he wrote the novel to put his anger towards them. Insulted that they were the topic of the book and Marco made Joey a lunatic, they insisted that Marco sign their book copies with his blood and started to beat him up.

Cast

• Anne Curtis as Zoe Tuazon/ Joey
• Cristine Reyes as Aica Tabayoyong/ Maica
• Sam Milby as Mark Ferrer/ Marco Yuzon
• Candy Pangilinan as Aica's Mother
• Dominic Ochoa as Aica's Father
• Arlene Muhlach as Zoe's mother
• Ricky Rivero as Zoe's Father
• Isay Alvarez
• Yam Concepcion
• Ana Abad Santos as The Teacher
• Kalila Aguilos
• Rubi-Rubi
• Racquel Villavicencio as Sister Angeline
• Alliya Fatima dela Riva as young Aica Tabayoyong/ Maica
• Kevin Remo as young Mark Ferrer/ Marco Yuzon
• Abby Bautista as young Zoe Tuazon/Joey
• Ashley "Petra Mahalimuyak" Rivera
• Shehyee Ongkiko
• Irish Den Lanting
• Van Dyke Atienza

Awards and nominations

• 31st PMPC Star Awards for Movies:
  • Nominated - Movie of the Year
  • Nominated - Movie Actress of the Year for Anne Curtis

See also

• My Neighbor's Wife
• In the Name of Love
• No Other Woman
• The Mistress
• A Secret Affair
• One More Try
• Seduction
• The Bride and the Lover
• When the Love Is Gone
• Trophy Wife
• Once a Princess
• The Trial

References

External links

• The Gifted at the Internet Movie Database