PREMONITIONS OF DEATH COME TRUE MOVIELinda's calendar and the movie are seriously out of whack. On the days he's dead, she wonders how she'll get along without him. On the days Jim is still alive, she wonders what she can do to prevent his death. But Linda's "dream" has rattled her, and the subsequent days are even more unsettling: Each morning she wakes up, in a different nightie or cami-and-jammie-bottom combo, not sure if she'll find her house filled with mourners, or hear her husband splashing in the shower. Ever.īut the next day, Linda wakes up, and there's husband Jim (Julian McMahon, of "Nip/Tuck") having his morning coffee. ("We couldn't get to you any sooner," he explains, dimly, perhaps forgetting to add, "because if we had, there wouldn't be anything to hang the rest of the movie on.") Stunned, Linda goes through the benumbed routine of the early stages of grief: She collects her little girls from school, gathering them soberly into her embrace as she explains that daddy isn't coming home again. The proceedings begin when Linda Hanson (Bullock) receives a visit from the sheriff, telling her that her husband - away on an overnight business trip - died in a car accident the day before. But "Premonition" - in which Sandra Bullock plays a wife and mom who, in between doing laundry and ferrying the kids to and from school, develops a knack for seeing the future - bleeds nothing but grim earnestness. That might be OK, if a picture is at least entertaining. It's no longer enough for a supernatural thriller to be simply spooky and atmospheric: Now, we have to have a spiritual component too, a supplement of phony seriousness to ensure that we're getting enough enlightenment in our entertainment diet.
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