The Life Before Her Eyes

Year:

2008

Duration:

90 min

Genres:

Drama | Mystery | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.4

Director:

Vadim Perelman

Awards:

2 wins

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2008-09-05

Filming Locations: Darien, Connecticut, USA

Earnings

Budget: $8,000,000

Opening Weekend: $20,220 (USA) (20 April 2008)

Gross: $303,439 (USA) (29 June 2008)

Cast

Actor

Character

Uma Thurman

Eva Amurri Martino

The Life Before Her Eyes

Evan Rachel Wood

Diana (Teen)

Gabrielle Brennan

Emma

Brett Cullen

Paul

Oscar Isaac

Marcus

Jack Gilpin

Mr. McCleod

Maggie Lacey

Amanda (Adult)

John Magaro

Michael Patrick

Lynn Cohen

Sister Beatrice

Nathalie Paulding

Amanda (Teen) (as Nathalie Nicole Paulding)

Molly Price

Diana's Mother

Oliver Solomon

Detective

Anna Moore

Blonde Student (as Anna Renee Moore)

Isabel Keating

Maureen's Mother

Adam Chanler-Berat

Ryan

Tanner Cohen

Nate Witt (as Tanner Max Cohen)

Aldous Davidson

Diana's Student

Ann McDonough

Librarian

Sharon Washington

Nurse

Kia Jam

Doctor

J.T. Arbogast

Male Reporter

Jewel Donohue

Mother at Shooting

Shayna Levine

Page (Teen)

Anslem Richardson

Policeman

Evan Neumann

Boy Kicked in Groin

Reathel Bean

Dean

Tuck Milligan

Clinic Doctor

Jessica Carlson

Girl at Shooting

Molly Shreger

Female Student (as Molly Schreger)

Pierce Cravens

Teen Usher

Sherman Alpert

Professor (uncredited)

Edwin J. Birmingham

SWAT Officer (uncredited)

Zachary Booth

Boy Swimming (uncredited)

Emily Branigan

Girl Smoking in Locker Room (uncredited)

Tom Carney

Lecture Attendee (uncredited)

Heather Collis

Waitress (uncredited)

Peter Conboy

Professor Attending Lecture (uncredited)

Brett Epstein

Student (uncredited)

Alexander Fagan

Male Student (uncredited)

Philip M. Gardiner

Survivor (uncredited)

Anne Clare Gibbons-Brown

Pedestrian / Moviegoer (uncredited)

Christopher Jon Gombos

Briar Hill Police Officer (uncredited)

Barbara Grant

Funeral Attendee (uncredited)

Guy Guglielmi

Pedestrian (uncredited)

Melissa Heaton

Highschool student (uncredited)

Jennifer Holguin

Classmate

Jake Honig

Student (uncredited)

Jack Levis

Extra (uncredited)

T.J. Linnard

Male Student (uncredited)

Paul Lucenti

Student in hall (uncredited)

James Margelony

Student Shot (uncredited)

Seth Michael May

Teaching Assistant (uncredited)

Maria Nazzaro

Nun at Catholic School (uncredited)

Greg Nutcher

Professor (uncredited)

Craig Pollack

Survivor (uncredited)

Julia Rusatsky

(uncredited)

Cristina Santiago

Mourner (uncredited)

Robert Sciglimpaglia

Family Member at Memorial Service (uncredited)

Kenny Shapiro

Dining at Restaurant (uncredited)

Ken Sladyk

University Professor (uncredited)

Sonny Vellozzi

Memorial Mourner (uncredited)

Jamie Watson

Triage Medic (uncredited)

Brian M. Wixson

Scott Connell (uncredited)

Gail Yudain

Professor (uncredited)

Ted Yudain

Professor (uncredited)

Dianne Zaremba

Sister Mary (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The names of the 26 victims seen on the memorial and the banner (with the exception of prominent characters such as Maureen and Mr. MacLeod) are the names of members of the production crew who worked on the film.

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At the start of the movie, when 'Uma Thruman''s character is flipping through radio stations, one of the songs you hear is "She's not there" by The Zombies (1964), which was covered under the title "About Her" by Malcolm McLaren. That cover was used in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) which Uma also starred in.

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Although the location in which the film takes place is never identified, the cars have Connecticut license plates.

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Goofs

Numerous supposed anachronisms such as the Dropkick Murphys poster hanging in Marcus' apartment, or the size of cell phones at the time when Diana was in high school incorrectly assume that Diana's adult life in the movie takes place in present time (2007) and that therefore the other time portrayed was 1992. That assumption ignores the main point of the movie, which was that Diana's adult life was a flash forward of her imagining her future life if she had not been killed by the student who went on a shooting spree in her high school, so in the movie the high school years were presumably present day (2007) and her adult life as portrayed in the movie was 15 years in the future.

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Quotes

Mr. McClood: And if there's anything I want you guys to take with you from this class, as you're abusing your bodies over break, is three things: the heart is the body's strongest muscle, that the brain has more cells in it than our galaxy has stars, and that the body is 72% water. So wherever you go over vacation, don't get too dehydrated.

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Diana McFee: [bedtime story she reads to Emma] When the voices of children are heard on the green. And laughing is heard on the hill. My heart is at rest within my breast. And everything else is still. Then come home my children, the sun is gone down. And the dews of night arise. Come, come, let us play, and let us away. Till the morning appears in the skies. No, no, let us play, for it is yet day. And we cannot go to sleep. Besides, in the sky the little birds fly. And the hills are all covered with sheep. Well, well, go and play till the light fades away. And then go home to bed. The little ones leaped and shouted and laughed. And all the hills echoed.

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Young Diana: [first lines - smoking in the locker room] That old bitch! I'm serious, if I have to jump over another pummel horse, or whatever they're called.

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Faq

Q

what are the songs in the trailer?

A

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