The Life Before Her Eyes

I hate to see good actresses wasted. Vadim Perelman's The Life Before Her Eyes (just out on DVD) hangs Evan Rachel Wood and Uma Thurman out to dry in a story that can't support all the symbolic and metaphorical weight that's hung on it. Wood plays a teen involved in a school shooting, Thurman the same woman 15 years later. The ending isn't so much a "twist" as it is a "f--k you." Avoid.