“Depressed housewife learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the next day after to a world in which he is still dead.”
I enjoyed this movie. The screenplay was excellent. Plenty of foreshadowing. And the end was adequately supported throughout the movie and it came to an “of-course” ending.
Sandra Bullock was basically the only star of this movie. She was excellent. But I don’t think this type of thriller (hinting at paranormal? I don’t know.) is ever nominated for Academy Awards. (Well, I take that back Martin Landau won best supporting actor for that sleeper Ed Wood − which was a great movie (to some of us.)
I urge you to avoid this movie is you have suffered a loss recently. Unless you are in the mood to cry for awhile.
If you want some philosophical messages about death and living, this is the movie for you. It’s not done like a horror movie, not creepy, etc. It mostly deals with a woman desperate to handle her own feelings, and make sense of changes in her reality. And of course the inborn drive of humans to take control of their own destiny.
Worth the rental fee, especially if you are a Bullock fan. She does her acting with great natural grace and ability. She's flawless in this regardless of what reality she is dealing with.
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