The acting is horrible and wooden - especially the poor child. The depiction of Mexicans is less nuanced than a Speedy Gonzalez cartoon. The twist ending is eye-rollingly bad. This is strictly a paint-by-numbers effort. It looks like at this point, Serling had already thrown in the towel. As it turns out, the mysterious stranger was, in fact an alien. And his "gift"? Turns out it was a cookbook. (Just kidding, it was much, much worse than that). .
Review of The Gift
