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“The Life Before Her Eyes” (2007) overview A dramatic thriller about Diana, a suburban wife and mother who begins to question her seemingly perfect life – and perhaps her sanity – on the 15th anniversary of a tragic high school shooting that took the life of her best friend. Starring Academy Award®-nominee Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood (“Across the Universe,” “Thirteen,” “King of California”), “The Life Before Her Eyes” is the new film from Vadim Perelman, the acclaimed director of “House of Sand and Fog.” “The Life Before Her Eyes” is an intense and visually evocative drama about the loss of youth, investigating how a single moment in time can define an entire life. Based on Laura Kasischke’s visionary novel, the story hinges on a pivotal confrontation: two high school girls held captive by a gunman and forced to make the terrifying choice as to who will live and who will die. “The Life Before Her Eyes” explores the reverberations stemming from the collision of past and future, reality and dream. Life can end in an instant – yet the echoes of possible futures been remain inescapable. “The film is about love, duty, loyalty, conscience… but there’s also self-preservation. Sometimes when we talk about violent situations, we talk about heroism but not enough about real humanity, not about the primal qualities we humans possess,” said director Vadim Perelman. At seventeen, spirited and rebellious young Diana (Evan Rachel Wood) looks forward to grabbing hold of her future. Fueled by curiosity and desire, she is all appetite, constantly challenging her more reserved best friend Maureen (Eva Amurri) to take risks. The two tease each other about the roles they play – Diana describes them as “the virgin and the whore.” Their lives are interrupted forever when the most normal of spring days is transformed by a senseless act of violence: a fellow student opens fire in their school and confronts Diana and Maureen and forces them to make an impossible flashpoint decision. Fifteen years later, an older, more settled Diana (Uma Thurman) looks back on that day from the vantage point of a survivor. On the surface, her adult life is picture perfect. She is married to a popular professor and is raising an eight-year-old daughter who is sensitive and creative, even if she has inherited some of her mother’s rebellious streak. The coming of spring to her hometown is achingly beautiful, yet as the season change leads towards the fifteenth anniversary of the school shooting, Diana experiences increasingly disturbing undertones of distress. When she thinks she sees a former teacher on the street – a man she knows was killed in the massacre – she nearly has a car accident. Her little girl redoubles Diana's anxiety with a bad habit of running away and hiding at school. Diana may be troubled by guilt, or she may be affected by something more primal, more insidious. Her well-established life no longer seems quite real. Meanwhile, we track young Diana's trajectory leading up to the encounter with the gunman. Seen up close and personal, her rebellious attitude is revealed as less confident and far more troubled than she lets on. To sustain the dream of a future, Diana at seventeen finds herself running away from the consequences of the present… When the adult Diana sees her husband apparently betraying her with a younger woman, Diana finds the fabric of her whole life tearing apart – there is nothing she can hold onto any longer. Caught up in this vortex, her panic escalates as her daughter goes missing. It is as if Diana has lost herself… her life disappearing before her eyes. The film builds to an inexorable revelation that Diana is not the survivor she appears to be. Her life as she saw it was only the dream of a future – a mournful flash forward in the last moments young Diana has on earth. Taglines Diana's life is not what it seems Your life can change in an instant. That instant can last forever Cast Uma Thurman as Diana Evan Rachel Wood as Young Diana Sherman Alpert as Professor Eva Amurri as Maureen J.T. Arbogast as Male Reporter Zachary Booth as Boy Swimming Emily Rose Branigan as Girl Smoking in Locker Room Gabrielle Brennan as Emma Jessica Carlson as Girl at Shooting Tom Carney as Lecture attendee Adam Chanler-Berat as Ryan Haswhip Tanner Cohen as Nate Heather Collis as Waitress Peter Conboy as Professor attending lecture Pierce Cravens as Teenage Usher Brett Cullen as Paul McFee Aldous Davidson as Student Jewel Donohue as Mother Brett Epstein as Student Alexander Fagan as Student Phil Gardiner as Survivor Christopher Jon Gombos as Briar Hill Police Officer Susan Graves-McCullough as Christine Connell: Survivor Guy Guglielmi as Pedestrian Oscar Isaac Kia Jam as Doctor Isabel Keating as Maureen's mother Maggie Lacey as Amanda Paul Lucenti as Student in hall John Magaro as Michael Patrick Seth Michael May as Teaching Assistant Anna Renee Moore as Blonde Student Maria Nazzaro as Nun at Catholic School Evan Neumann as Richard Payne Nathalie Paulding as Young Amanda Craig Pollack as Survivor Molly Price as Diana's Mother Anslem Richardson as Policeman Julia Rusatsky Sean Schreger as Female Student Ken Sladyk as University Professor Mike Slater as Young Tom Oliver Solomon as Detective James Urbaniak as Professor McFee Brian M. Wixson as Scott Connell Director: Vadim Perelman. Screenwriter: Emil Stern. Source writer: Laura Kasischke (novel). Producers: Vadim Perelman, Aimee Peyronnet and Anthony Katagas. Executive producers: Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban and Marc Butan. Director of photography: Pawel Edelman. Music: James Horner Running time: 90 minutes MPAA rating: R for violent and disturbing content, language and brief drug use Companies Production 2929 Productions Distribution 2929 International Magnolia Pictures (2007) (USA) (theatrical) >>>> TVA Films (2008) (Canada) (theatrical) United King Films (2008) (Israel) (theatrical) >>>> Amero Mitra Film (2008) (Indonesia) (theatrical) >>>> Desperado (2008) (Japan) (theatrical) Filmes Lusomundo (2008) (Portugal) (theatrical) Manga Films (2007) (Spain) (theatrical) Mediafilm (2007) (Italy) (theatrical) Metropolitan Filmexport (2008) (France) (theatrical) Odeon (2008) (Greece) (theatrical) Paradiso Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical) Pinema (2007) (Turkey) (all media) Special effects Element FX Other 424 Post - sound post-production Dolby Laboratories - sound mix Sylvia Fay / Lee Genick & Associates Casting - extras casting © Preems.com |
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Premieres Canada - September 8, 2007 (Toronto Film Festival) South Korea - October 25, 2007 (Chungmuro Classic Film Festival) United States - April 2, 2008 (AFI Dallas Film Festival); April 10, 2008 (Phoenix Film Festival); April 18, 2008 (limited) April 25, 2008 Berkeley, CA: Shattuck Cinemas Del Mar, CA: Flower Hill Cinema 4 Emeryville, CA: Bay Street 16 La Jolla, CA: La Jolla 12 Laguna Niguel, CA: Rancho Niguel 8 Cinemas Long Beach, CA: Marketplace 6 - Long Beach Ontario, CA: Ontario Mills 30 Orange, CA: Block 30 @ Orange Palm Desert, CA: Cinemas Palme D'Or Palo Alto, CA: Aquarius 2 Pleasant Hill, CA: CineArts 5 - Pleasant Hill San Diego, CA: Hillcrest Cinemas San Francisco, CA: Embarcadero Center Cinema San Jose, CA: Camera 12 Santa Cruz, CA: Nickelodeon Theatres Santa Rosa, CA: Rialto Cinemas Lakeside Torrance, CA: Rolling Hills 20 Washington, DC: Georgetown 14 Chicago, IL: River East 21 Chicago, IL: Landmark's Century Centre Cinema South Barrington, IL: South Barrington 30 Warrenville, IL: Cantera 30 Boston, MA: Boston Commons 19 Cambridge, MA: Kendall Square Cinema Danvers, MA: Hollywood Hits Waltham, MA: Embassy Cinema Bethesda, MD: Bethesda Row Cinema Montclair, NJ: Clairidge Cinemas Rocky Hill, NJ: Montgomery 6 Tenafly, NJ: Tenafly Cinema 4 Voorhees, NJ: Showcase at the Ritz Center 16 Bronxville, NY: Bronxville Cinemas Kew Gardens, NY: Kew Gardens Cinemas Malverne, NY: Malverne Cinema Manhasset, NY: Manhasset Cinemas White Plains, NY: Cinema 100 Twin Bensalem, PA: Neshaminy 24 Philadelphia, PA: Ritz 5 Movies Austin, TX: Arbor Cinemas at Great Hills Dallas, TX: Magnolia Theatre - Dallas Plano, TX: Angelika Film Center and Cafe Arlington, VA: Shirlington 7 Bellevue, WA: Lincoln Square Stadium 16 Lynnwood, WA: Alderwood 16 Seattle, WA: Guild 45th Theatre May 2, 2008 Scottsdale, AZ: Camelview 5 Theatre Tucson, AZ: Century El Con 20 Theatre Denver, CO: Chez Artiste West Palm Beach, FL: Parisian 20 Atlanta, GA: Midtown Art Cinemas 8 Honolulu, HI: Kahala Theatres 8 Indianapolis, IN: Keystone Art Cinema 7 Hanover, MD: Egyptian 24 Owings Mills, MD: Owings Mills 17 Bloomfield Hills, MI: Maple Art Theatre Sterling Heights, MI: Forum 30 - Sterling Hts Minneapolis, MN: Lagoon Cinema Frontenac, MO: Plaza Frontenac Cinema Kansas City, MO: Barrywoods 24 Cincinnati, OH: Esquire Theatre Portland, OR: Fox Tower 10 Nashville, TN: Green Hills 16 Houston, TX: Angelika Film Center San Antonio, TX: Santikos Bijou @ Crossroads 6 May 9, 2008 Little Rock, AR: Market Street Cinema Des Moines, IA: Fleur Cinema Omaha, NE: Oak View 24 Santa Fe, NM: De Vargas Center Williamsville, NY: Eastern Hills Cinema Columbus, OH: Lennox 24 Memphis, TN: Ridgeway 4 Burlington, VT: Merrill's Roxy Theatre Madison, WI: Sundance Cinemas 608 May 16, 2008 Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Theater Albany, NY: Spectrum Knoxville, TN: Downtown West Cinema 8 May 23, 2008 Sacramento, CA: Tower Theatre Dayton, OH: New Neon Movies June 6, 2008 Missoula, MT: Wilma Four June 13, 2008 Brunswick, ME: Eveningstar Cinema Poland - September 5, 2008 On screen Los Angeles, CA: The Landmark Pasadena, CA: Playhouse 7 Cinemas Encino, CA: Town Center 5 Irvine, CA: University Town Center 6 Cinemas New York City: Empire 25 Theaters, Lincoln Square, Cinemas 1 2 3, Sunshine Cinema Filming locations New Haven, Connecticut, USA Norwalk, Connecticut, USA Sheridan School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Stamford, Connecticut, USA Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Critics' reviews Hollywood Reporter: "… intriguing if occasionally head-scratching …" Variety: "… bona fide Lifetime fodder …" Entertainment Weekly: "… the story wanders agitatedly from issues of religious faith to those of abortion …" Premiere: "… overstated and overwrought." Village Voice: "… fertile potential for subtle meditation on growing up, conscience, and roads not traveled ends up buried beneath insect metaphors, lurid flashbacks …"
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