| The Life Before Her Eyes | 
 enlarge | Director: Vadim Perelman
Actors: Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Amurri
Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 9267
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 90
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MAGD10138D
UPC: 876964001380
EAN: 0876964001380
ASIN: B00199PPP6
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: August 19, 2008
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Condition: Ships first class same or next day WITH DELIVERY CONFIRMATION AND TRACKING. There are scratches on disc, they don't affect play. Former rental. Buy 3 or more get a Priority Mail upgrade
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Product Description
Imaganitive impetuous & wild diana cant wait for her adult life to begin. Diana tests her limits as her more conservative friend maureen watches with concern. But dianas aura of invincibility is shattered when a moment of life & death decision-making forever changes the lives of the best friends. Studio: Magnolia Pict Hm Ent Release Date: 08/19/2008 Starring: Uma Thurman Eva Amurri Run time: 90 minutes Rating: R
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 A Deceptive Loser December 2, 2008
Both my wife and I felt cheated at the end of this movie, like detective who'd wasted his time following a false lead. Sure, it might be interesting while it is happening, but what is the point when it is all for naught? Don't expect any satisfying feeling after watching this deceptive loser.
 under rated October 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this movie--I guess most did not--it came and went to the movie theater so quickly I never even heard of it till it went on to DVD.
This is a real ""thinkers'' movie--I had to watch it 2 times to understand the ending which really explains the whole movie.....
No big action--except the school shoot out--but an excellent plot
 A Surreal Portrait . . . September 22, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The Life Before Her Eyes is a chilling portrait of a high school student gone mad, leaving devastation in his wake.
Evan Rachel Wood portrays Diana, a wild girl who relishes using bad language and meting out her own brand of justice, while her best friend Maureen, played by Eva Amurri, serves as the moral compass. While blithely enjoying their day, the two hole up in the school bathroom, chatting and fixing their makeup -- and then shots ring out.
From this point forward, the movie plays out in a series of flash-forward, flashback vignettes -- we see the two girls swimming, diving, hanging out; and then we see the adult version of Diana, taking her daughter Emma to school, glancing nervously at a sign over the local high school announcing a 15-year memorial of the tragedy -- a haunting day when a boy fired into a school, destroying lives.
Several versions of the teenage girls' final moments are played out, with the killer asking them to choose which one will die.
What seems like a normal life for the adult version of Diana soon has us asking several questions: Which girl actually died on that fateful day? What constitutes reality and what is actually fantasy? Is everything only a flashing of "life before her eyes" and is nothing real at all?
The viewer must decide the answers to these questions. But no matter what conclusions you reach, this movie will haunt you for some time to come.
 many liberties taken with the book September 13, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
SPOILER ALERT
It's always risky to watch a movie made from a book you liked, and I did like the book version of the story quite a bit...it was lyrical and dreamy and morally challenging. The film, for some reason, inserted a weird narrative about abortion, which was not part of the original story. It also made Maureen, the best friend, a Christian virgin. So of course the whole thing becomes a religious morality play, whereby the bad girl chooses to die to make up for the life she took. Yuck. The book had none of that nonsense. And in fact, the (anti-)heroine made quite a different choice in the book, which offered a completely different twist on the "choose life" thing--in the book the grown-up Diana sees a bumper sticker with that saying on it--the person who wrote the screenplay obviously noticed that and decided to make it more of a propaganda piece, instead of a morally ambiguous fable.
That said, the performances were good, and it may be that the whole story would have played better to someone who hadn't read (and liked) the original novel.
 Too confusing...I didnt enjoy the movie...but curiosity is there. September 9, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I havent read the book, but now I would like too. The movie was too confusing, I wasnt sure at first whether or not the main girl was a ghost or what. A customer at work explained it to me and then I understood. The girl did die and the whole movie was what she had envisioned in the two seconds before she died. I didnt really like the movie, I'm not an Uma Thurman fan at all, but I would like to read the book to see if it'll explain in greater detail. This movie rents really well, a lot of people are immensouly curious about it and have deemed it a "work of art". I found that you have to devote your entire attention to this movie, or you are really going to become lost like I did. So if you got alot of time to sit and think i would watch it, but if you have a short attention span and are easily confunded dont watch, you'll feel that you haave wasted your time.
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