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Writers:
Laura Kasischke (novel)
Emil Stern (screenplay)
Release Date:
5 September 2008 (Poland) more
Tagline:
Diana's life is not what it seems. more
Plot:
A woman's survivor's guilt from a Columbine-like event twenty years ago causes her present-day idyllic life to fall apart. full summary | add synopsis
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Uma Thurman to Walk Red Carpet For Opening Night of 45th Chicago International Film Festival
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 23 September 2009, 5:09 PM, PDT)
Insert Caption: The Burning Plain
(From Cinematical. 11 September 2009, 4:32 PM, PDT)
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One of the Year's Best more (58 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Uma Thurman | ... | Diana McFee | |
| Evan Rachel Wood | ... | Young Diana | |
| Eva Amurri | ... | Maureen | |
| Gabrielle Brennan | ... | Emma McFee | |
| Brett Cullen | ... | Paul McFee | |
| Oscar Isaac | ... | Marcus | |
| Jack Gilpin | ... | Mr. McClood | |
| Maggie Lacey | ... | Amanda - adult | |
| John Magaro | ... | Michael Patrick | |
| Lynn Cohen | ... | Sister Beatrice | |
| Nathalie Paulding | ... | Amanda - teen | |
| Molly Price | ... | Diana's Mother | |
| Oliver Solomon | ... | Detective | |
| Isabel Keating | ... | Maureen's mother | |
| Anna Moore | ... | Blonde Student (as Anna Renee Moore) |
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Also Known As:
In Bloom (USA) (pre-release title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for violent and disturbing content, language and brief drug use.
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90 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS
Certification:
Poland:18 | USA:R (certificate #43660) | Netherlands:16 | South Korea:18 | Finland:K-15 | Singapore:NC-16 | Japan:PG-12 | UK:15 | Portugal:M/16
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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 "About Her" by Malcolm McLaren. The same song was in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) which Uma also stared in. more
Quotes:
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.
Maureen:
You guys should probably put that out.
Young Diana:
Why?
Maureen:
Shrankins is like 5 feet behind me.
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References "The Magic School Bus" (1994) more
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I also saw this at Toronto, and visually speaking, this movie is one of the best looking films of the year. This director's first film was the great "House of Sand and Fog" and here he confirms how talented he is. Uma Thurman hasn't been better as she plays a woman who is now well into adulthood, living in the small town that she grew up in, with a professor husband and a little girl. I love the way Perelman uses flashbacks here to inform us about Thurman as a teen. In many films, flashbacks can yank us around and cut tension, but here Evan Rachel Wood is so good that the two characters are seamlessly interwoven in a way that we are treated to a complex character study of a grown woman who is driving herself mad with regret and anxiety and guilt. There's nothing more fascinating than watching conflict that is internal rather than external, and Thurman here is so good, I hope she is remembered come Oscar season.
Just a solid movie in every way. Good score from James Horner, the guy who did the music for "A Beautiful Mind" and "House of Sand and Fog", equally lovely scores in their own right.