--- description: Bygones do not stay bygones in this new thriller. title: Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall Look Terrified in the Trailer for 'The Gift' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb230e741e33aff6c/69878657e53aba53084d8613/the-gift.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall Look Terrified in the Trailer for _The Gift_ by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 1, 2015 10:09 PM CUT  Rebecca Hall, Jason Bateman and Joel Edgerton star in "The Gift". Rebecca Hall, Jason Bateman and Joel Edgerton star in "The Gift".Matt Kennedy–STX Entertainment by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 1, 2015 10:09 PM CUT What starts as an innocent-seeming gift left on a front porch spirals into massive tension and deceit in the new thriller _The Gift._ Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall star as a couple that move to a new town where a man from the husband’s past (played by Joel Edgerton) tries to befriend them. When he’s rebuffed, he threatens the couple with a secret that could ruin their lives. Edgerton also wrote and directed the movie, which is due to hit theaters July 31. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3768189/the-gift-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3768189/the-gift-trailer/"},"headline":"Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall Look Terrified in the Trailer for The Gift","datePublished":"2015-04-01T22:09:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:38:09.694Z","description":"Bygones do not stay bygones in this new thriller","url":"https://time.com/3768189/the-gift-trailer/","keywords":["movies","Jason Bateman"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb230e741e33aff6c/69878657e53aba53084d8613/the-gift.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb230e741e33aff6c/69878657e53aba53084d8613/the-gift.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"UNTITLED JOEL EDGERTON PROJECT","caption":"UNTITLED JOEL EDGERTON PROJECT","creditText":"Matt Kennedy–STX Entertainment","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3768189/the-gift-trailer/","name":"Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall Look Terrified in the Trailer for The Gift"}}]}] ```