Glenn Close movies just got easier to reach, because The Girl With All the Gifts is now free on Tubi and Pluto TV. The 2016 sci-fi horror film gives viewers a no-subscription path to Close’s turn as Dr. Caldwell.
Colm McCarthy directed the film in 2016, adapting Mike Carey’s novel of the same name. That puts a Glenn Close title back into circulation on ad-supported TV-style platforms, where the barrier is attention rather than a monthly fee.
Dr. Caldwell in The Girl With All
Close plays Dr. Caldwell in The Girl With All the Gifts, and the film’s setup is built around survival after an infection has eviscerated most of humanity. The infected are called the hungries, which keeps the movie firmly in sci-fi horror territory even as it leans on a classroom-and-lab structure.
Gemma Arterton plays Ms. Justineau, and Sennia Nanua plays Melanie, one of a group of imprisoned children observed and experimented on by scientists and educators at an army base. Melanie is the brightest of those children, and she becomes the last hope for a small group of survivors when the base is swarmed by the hungries.
Sennia Nanua and Melanie
Nanua’s role gives the film its sharpest edge. The story is framed like a traditional zombie movie, but it tries to separate itself through its premise and final stretch, and Melanie’s position at the center of that shift is what keeps the film from playing like a simple genre repeat.
That push-and-pull is the reason The Girl With All the Gifts still travels well on streaming. It sits near titles such as HBO's The Last of Us, One Cut of the Dead, and Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later films, but it does so with a more contained story and a narrower set of characters.
Tubi and Pluto TV
The practical takeaway is simple: viewers interested in Glenn Close or in sci-fi horror can watch the film without paying a subscription fee on Tubi and Pluto TV. For a 2016 title with Close in a rare genre turn, free access is the part that changes the viewing decision.
How long the film will remain free on Tubi and Pluto TV is not stated, so the right move is to watch while it is available and treat it as a temporary opening in Glenn Close movies rather than a permanent library fixture.
