The Life Before Her Eyes

Based on author Laura Kasischke's novel -The Life Before Her Eyes, House of Sand and Fog director Vadim Perelman's provocative study of memory, morality, and conscience stars Uma Thurman as the guilt-ridden survivor of a harrowing, Columbine-like high-school shooting. To any outsider, Diana (played ...more

In the post-Columbine era, gun violence in schools is a credible fear. The Life Before Her Eyes touches on this reality but flounders when it attempts to be too deep for its own good. The film is a split narrative that shuffles back and forth between the events that define the life of teenaged Diana (Evan Rachel Wood), a rebellious spark plug of a girl, and the scarred, stunted adult she becomes, since her spark was extinguished when a teenaged shooter who went ballistic in her high school ...more