History Film / TheUltimateGift

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->''I wanna give you a gift, a series of gifts, leading up to, well... how 'bout call it "[[TitleDrop the ultimate gift]]".''

'''''The Ultimate Gift''''' is a movie [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the best-selling novel of the same name]]. It opens with Mr. Hamilton (Bill Cobbs) being informed of the death of his long-time friend and colleague Howard "Red" Stevens (Creator/JamesGarner). At the reading of his will, Jason, Red's grandson, learns that his grandfather has a gift for him, "the ultimate gift", but only if he can complete a series of tasks, and learn the lessons embedded in them.

* BuryMeNotOnTheLonePrairie: Red wished to be buried under [[EverythingIsBigInTexas [=Texas=]]] soil. His relatives pour some sand on his coffin at the funeral in North Carolina.

'''''The Ultimate Gift''''' is a movie [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the best-selling novel of the same name]]. It opens with Mr. Hamilton (Bill Cobbs) being informed of the death of his long-time friend and colleague Howard "Red" Stevens (James Garner). At the reading of his will, Jason, Red's grandson, learns that his grandfather has a gift for him, "the ultimate gift", but only if he can complete a series of tasks, and learn the lessons embedded in them.

* IdleRich: Jason and his entire extended family. He gets better, though.

* GoldDigger: Jason's girlfriend Caitlin.

* JerkAss: An entire family of 'em.

'''''The Ultimate Gift''''' is a movie [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the best-selling novel of the same name]]. It opens with Mr. Hamilton (Bill Cobbs) being informed of the death of his long-time friend and colleague Howard "Red" Stevens (James Garner).

%%* ConspicuousConsumption

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Only by a minute, sure, but when Jason is bringing Alexia's purse to the hospital and walks under the sign for the [[spoiler:Children's Oncology Unit]]...

* PosthumousCharacter: Red

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Emily, [[spolier: as expected of a LittlestCancerPatient]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Or at least as happy as you can be when [[spoiler: the LittlestCancerPatient dies.]]

* AdultFear: Having your child predecease you, as [[spoiler: Red]] puts it, is the worst thing a parent can possibly experience. [[spoiler: Alexia finds this out the hard way during the climax.]]

* DyingAlone: [[spoiler:The only two people in the world who mattered to Emily were absent when she died.]]

** Emily's comment to Hamilton: "I plan on knowing

%%* OnOneCondition: The gifts.

%%* StayWithMeUntilIDie

* BecomingTheMask: Jason towards Emily. He only befriended her for the condition on the will. But he later got to know her as a person.

%%* EarnYourHappyEnding: Or at least as happy as you can be when [[spoiler: the LittlestCancerPatient dies.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Only by a minute, sure, but when Jason is bringing Alexia's purse to the hospital and walks under the sign for [[spoiler:Children's Oncology]]...

%%* NeverGotToSayGoodbye

%%* SpeakIllOfTheDead

%%* StepfordSnarker: Emily, in spades.

%%* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Emily.

* AdultFear: Two parents were predeceased by their children; [[spoiler:Red and Alexia]].

%%* EarnYourHappyEnding

* GoldDigger: Jason's girlfriend.

* RichBitch: Any of the females in Jason's family.

%%* StepfordSnarker

* VideoWill: As mentioned above, Red.

''The Ultimate Gift'' is a movie [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the best-selling novel of the same name]]. It opens with Mr. Hamilton (Bill Cobbs) being informed of the death of his long-time friend and colleague Howard "Red" Stevens (James Garner).

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]: [[spoiler:Sure, Jason finishes all the challenges, becomes a billionaire, and gets together with Alexia, but ''Emily dies''.]]

* ConspicuousConsumption

* EarnYourHappyEnding

* [[spoiler:LittlestCancerPatient]]: [[spoiler:Emily, though we don't know it at first.]]

* NeverGotToSayGoodbye
* OnOneCondition: The gifts.

* SpeakIllOfTheDead

* StayWithMeUntilIDie
* StepfordSnarker

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Emily.

* {{Cowboy}}: Gus. Jason isn't to shabby himself, once he gets into it.

* [=Bookends=]: At Red's funeral, a series of statues framed by dark clouds are shown to set the scene in the graveyard. When [[spoiler:Emily]] dies, the same statues are seen from the same angles, with a clear blue sky in the background.

* BookEnds: At Red's funeral, a series of statues framed by dark clouds are shown to set the scene in the graveyard. When [[spoiler:Emily]] dies, the same statues are seen from the same angles, with a clear blue sky in the background.

* BuryMeNotOnTheLonePrairie: Red wished to be buried under {{Texas}} soil. His relatives pour some sand on his coffin at the funeral in North Carolina.

* BookEnds: At Red's funeral, a series of statues framed by dark clowds are shown to set the scene in the graveyard. When [[spoiler:Emily]] dies, the same statues are seen from the same angles, with a clear blue sky in the background.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Emily is not afraid to speak her mind. Jason has is moments, as well.
* DyingAlone: [[spoiler:The only people who mattered to Emily were absent when she died.]]

* GoldDigger
* IdleRich

* LastDisrespects: Red's family at his funeral, from snide comments to showing up late and interrupting the pastor with your over-loud "muffler"

* OnOneCondition
* ParentalSubstitute
* PosthumousCharacter
* RichBitch

* SpoiledBrat

* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat
* VideoWill
* WiseBeyondTheirYears

* [[spoiler:LittlestCancerPatient]]: [[Emily, though we don't know it at first.]]

* TearJerker

* Tearjerker