Rotten
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.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
The Ultimate Gift
Life is how you live it... not how you spend it.
2007 · 1h 54m · PG
Drama, Family, Romance
Directed by
Michael O. Sajbel
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The Ultimate Gift
Overview
When his wealthy grandfather finally dies, Jason Stevens fully expects to benefit when it comes to the reading of the will. But instead of a sizable inheritance, Jason receives a test, a series of tasks he must complete before he can get any money.
Director and cast
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33%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
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.
Erin Clements, Time Out New York
Fresh
[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.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Rotten
The Ultimate Gift is kind of like a feel-good Saw for churchgoers, minus the sadistic games of death.
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly
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