he and miranda richardson are the main reasons for seeing this. 0k. gifted.t go? and the poster i have to say looked very cheesy. from the director of 500 days of summer. the poster looked like it was going to be a particular kind of drama and i went in not expecting very much. i really liked it. the story is a single man who is raising a precociously intelligent young child. he wants her to go to a normal school. the school saying she is a genius and she needs to go to a special academy. he says, no i want her to have as a normal life. what i like about this film was, particularly since i hadn't expected that much of it, it is very, very sharply written by tom flynn. it is a film in which...it‘s a lot funnier than you expect it is going to be. i have this thing that something has to get six laughs in order to be a proper comedy. this passed that. the performances are all really welljudged. not least lindsay duncan, who plays a character that could easily tip over into caricature — the controlling grandmother who wants the child to fully explore all her intel