REGION 2 DVD (U.K Release)

Premonition [DVD]

Very Good Condition

Product details

• Actors: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Shyann McClure, Courtney Taylor Burness, Nia Long
• Directors: Mennan Yapo
• Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Colour, Dolby, Subtitled
• Region: Region 2
• Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Classification: 12
• Studio: Eiv
• DVD Release Date: 16 July 2007
• Run Time: 110 minutes

Product Description

Thriller starring Sandra Bullock and Julian McMahon. Linda Hanson (Bullock) is an average housewife with a loving family, but when a policeman comes knocking on her door with news that her husband, Jim (McMahon), was involved in a fatal car accident, Linda's world slowly begins to unravel. While her grief is at first overwhelming, Linda assumes that the whole thing was nothing more than a vivid dream when she wakes up the next morning to find her husband very much alive. With each passing day, however, Linda's reality shifts and her circumstances grow increasingly surreal; one day Jim is dead and the next he is right there by her side. As her investigation leaves her convinced that her husband's death wasn't a dream and that her picture-perfect life may not have been quite as flawless as she thought, Linda embarks on a mind-bending journey to prevent her grim premonition from becoming a reality.

In Premonition, Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) is living in the Twilight Zone as she experiences recurring dreams of her husband's car crash, mediated by days in which the tragedy hasn't yet happened. By the time Linda does see her husband Jim's (Julian McMahon) death, one feels relieved instead of grievous. Though Premonition mines fascinating material, investigating the ways women in particular have uncanny psychic abilities to predict impending family dangers, Linda's premonitions are so convoluted, even to her, that it is difficult to determine their reality. Unrealistic scenes involving a sadistic psychiatrist and an unwarranted lithium prescription would lead one to question Linda's sanity, but instead add falseness to the story. Irritating sequences in which Linda confides in a priest at the local church, who tells her that faith will heal all, seem like Christian propaganda that completely eradicates any real witchcraft in the story. For a truly scary film about clairvoyance, see Dario Argento's Phenomena. Premonition is a bogus take on psychic prediction, as tearjerking as Ghost was during Patrick Swayze's heyday.
Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.