There’s enough believable chemistry between Evans and Grace for it all to work. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Lisa (Capuano), who worked at the Concord Youth Theatre, and G. Evans began his acting career in typical fashion: performing in school productions and community theatre. The film’s melodramtic beats are predictable but arehit with absolute precision (try not to cry when Frank and Mary are temporarily separated). Christopher Robert Evans is an American actor, film producer, and director. Backlit by a vibrant orange sunset, Webb captures her in silhouette as she climbs her uncle like a small monkey, legs dangling from his shoulders and elbows resting on his head. In one scene, she asks him to tell her the truth about whether there’s a God. But, as his estranged mother, Evelyn ( Lindsay Duncan, playing her steely and British) insists: “She’s not normal and treating her as such is negligence on a grand scale.”įrank talks to the precocious Mary like she’s an adult – and she talks back like one. Her only friends are their adult neighbour Roberta (Octavia Spencer) and a one-eyed ginger cat named Fred and so Frank decides to enrol her in school so that she can learn to get along with kids her own age. Our whiz-kid lives with her uncle Frank (Chris Evans), a boat mechanic described, rather accurately, by one of the film’s characters as the Tampa suburb’s resident “quiet, damaged hot guy”. The unbearably cute, gap-toothed daughter of a deceased maths genius, she is the “gifted” subject of Marc Webb’s touching family melodrama. “3+3? Really?” asks seven-year-old Mary (McKenna Grace) during her first day at school.
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