This trailer is lovely and touching, but leaves you wondering what exactly the movie is. In other words: the best kind of trailer. The movie's from the director of The House of Sand and Fog, which I'm not really sure is that big of a selling point for most people, but I guess they use what they have. We start with Evan Rachel Wood and Eva Amurri (also known as Susan Sarandon's daughter), happy and carefree BFFs in high school. But then, tragedy strikes in the form of a school shooting. It appears that Evan and Eva have to choose which one of them lives and which one of them dies (because school shootings are so often like Sophie's Choice rather than just angry adolescents shooting every which way), and Evan is the survivor. She grows up to become Uma Thurman, apparently, who is still struggling with the memory of her friend and that choice. Her husband tries to comfort her, but can't. She also has a little blond daughter, who she gazes at with fear? Longing? Heartbreak? Suffice it to say she has some sort of concerns about her little girl. The movie all has something to do with destiny, and with Uma/Evan's character being wild as a teenager. And then Uma's husband is caught with another young blond, and it looks like she leaves him. Uma is approaching a door, with flowers, about to knock on it, right as the trailer ends. And I'm left with this one question: Are they allowed to end trailers with such a cliffhanger? That's just not fair, because I'm going to actually have to see this movie now.Reviews by people who've actually seen it:
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