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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Magnolia Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 21514
Released: August 19, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Imaginative, impetuous and wild Diana (Evan Rachel Wood) can t wait for her adult life to begin. Diana test her limits as her more conservative friend Maureen (Eva Amurri) watches with concern. But Diana s aura of invincibility is shattered when a moment of life and death decision-making forever changes the lives of the two best friends.
The Life Before Her Eyes Reviews:
Beautiful and Moving (a no-spoiler review) 
2009-09-14 - The Life Before Her Eyes is a treasure.
Based on a novel by Laura Kasischke, it stars Uma Thurman as Diana "Dee" McFee, a teacher in a small New England town. Diana is married and has a daughter who shows signs of being as unmanageable as she, herself, was as a teen.
We get to see exactly how wild she was in flashbacks, with the marvelous Evan Rachel Wood perfect as the young Diana. (Wood as the young Thurman? Brilliant and inspired casting). We get to see the shape of her life then in order to compare it to her life as an adult. And we also get to see the horrible tragedy that haunts her as an adult and threatens her happiness, and even her sanity.
The story is powerfully moving, adapted to the screen by Emil Stern. The alternation between the past and present is graceful, and both actresses give amazing performances of real depth and feeling, without veering into melodrama. Director Vadim Perelman (House of Sand and Fog) and cinematographer Pawe Edelman provide lyrical visuals full of lovely everyday images potent, but not over-stuffed, with symbolism.
The Life Before Her Eyes is a wise film with a lot to say about life, the things we hold sacred, who we are at the best and worst of times, and the impact a few moments can have on eternity.
Life as a post traumatic disorder 
2009-08-26 - Diana and her high school friend Maureen are like day and night. Diana sleeps around, skips school and aparently cares about nothing, while Maureen is more subdued in every way. Until one day their class mate pulls out the gun in the school yard, starts shooting at students and teachers and at that moment changes everyone's lives.
Filmed as a flashback between Diana's young teenage life and her adult life as a mother, professor and a wife, it is a story that goes back and forth between past and present. It is almost that everything in Diana's life triggers some emotion or memory fromher distant past. One would think that 15 years after the fateful event of school shooting, Diana will be a well adjusted woman, but that is not a case.
She seems to want to redeem her choices made in her youth with the life she lives in her present. Until her seemingly well ordered life falls into pieces all at once and unexpectedly. Are such horrific events going to free her from her conscience, or take away a little bit of a sanity that is left in her? You watch the movie and then be the judge.
not what it appears to be in flashback
2009-06-27 - little hard to follow sometimes,but I stick with uma and evan rachel even in flashback
QUESTION!
2009-04-28 - okay what was the part of the movie about her going to the hospital when she was younger and then with her boyfriend and the blood and she is like if this gets any worse i have to go to the hospital i am soo confused there
Best movie I've seen in a long time
2009-03-08 - It has been said that one can only understand one's life in the context of one's death, that our purpose is revealed to us when we realized that we too will die, and that we only have the courage to live our lives if we know and accept our imminent death. This movie is a great exploration into life, death, love, and possibility. Don't let it slip by. See it for yourself.
