The Ultimate Gift
Jason Stevens (Drew Fuller) lives a life of wealth and privilege. When his grandfather (James Garner) dies, Jason expects to receive a hefty inheritance, only to get a series of odd tasks to perform in order to receive 'the ultimate gift,' with he having no idea what that might be.
1998, North Carolina, USA
11 March 1982, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
9 July 1938, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
18 December 1988, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
31 May 1952, England, UK
29 December 1978, Huntington Beach, California, USA
17 May 1976, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
12 March 1939, Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
14 April 1996, New York City, New York, USA
March 30, 2007
A parabolic film about one selfish young man's spiritual transformation.
March 19, 2007
The film squeaks by on a combination of reliable old pros...and appealing newcomers...
March 18, 2007
The result is a deep desire for those Hollywood execs to remember that Christian doesn't have to equal brain-dead.
August 21, 2007
It's Self-Help: The Movie, and it stinks to high heaven.
March 17, 2007
If you missed the money-isn't-everything message, an end-credits recap outlines the story's salient points -- if you'd known, you could've skipped the rest.
September 09, 2007
The Ultimate Gift will put you in a diabetic coma.
March 15, 2007
[James] Garner is good, and so is Brian Dennehy as a crusty ranch owner; Abigail Breslin, playing a leukemia patient, demonstrates that she was not a one-note wonder in Little Miss Sunshine.
March 20, 2007
I think urban sophisticates can be people of faith who want to see movies, occasionally, that don't have the four-letter words, and I do embrace religion, but I think they have to be better than this.
April 17, 2007
I haven't even read the book, and I know it has to be better than the movie.
March 17, 2007
Christian charity, in this movie, seems like a side-effect of capitalism.
March 14, 2007
The Ultimate Gift is kind of like a feel-good Saw for churchgoers, minus the sadistic games of death.
August 22, 2007
This new film moves along smoothly until Grandpa's most preposterous mission - which needlessly drags out the movie -- takes Jason to a severely caricatured Ecuador.

