The Life Before Her Eyes is an American 2008 drama/thriller film directed by Vadim Perelman. The screenplay was adapted by Emil Stern from the Laura Kasischke novel of the same name. The film stars Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood. It was released on April 18, 2008 and revolves around a woman's survivor's guilt from a Columbine-like event that occurred fifteen years ago, which causes her present-day idyllic life to fall apart.



Plot

Imaginative, impetuous and wild Diana (Evan Rachel Wood) can’t wait for her adult life to begin. Whiling away the final days of high school in the lush springtime, Diana tests her limits with sex and drugs, even having an abortion at one point, as her more conservative friend Maureen (Eva Amurri) watches with concern. But Diana’s aura of invincibility is shattered when a senseless act of violence erupts at school, forever changing the lives of the two best friends.

Fifteen years later, a grown Diana (Uma Thurman) is still trying to come to terms with the traumatic events of that fateful day. On the surface, the adult Diana has made a picture perfect life for herself. She’s still living in the sleepy Connecticut suburb she grew up in with her husband Paul, a professor at the local college. Her beautiful young daughter, Emma, is smart and creative, and possesses a fiercely independent streak reminiscent of her mother. But all is not well—as the anniversary of her adolescent trauma approaches, the darkness that Diana has tried to escape closes in. Meanwhile, her husband has become increasingly absent, her daughter has taken to hiding from teachers, and worst of all, Diana’s own grip on reality is starting to falter.


Cast

* Uma Thurman as Diana
* Evan Rachel Wood as Young Diana
* Eva Amurri as Maureen
* Gabrielle Brennan as Emma
* Adam Chanler-Berat as Ryan Haswhip
* Brett Cullen as Paul McFee
* Jewel Donohue as mother
* Isabel Keating as Maureen's mother
* Nathalie Paulding as Young Amanda
* Mike Slater as Young Tom
* James Urbaniak as Professor McFee




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