Premonition

Theatrical Release Date: 2007 03 16 (USA)

UPC: 043396190597

Studio: Sony Pictures

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity]

Summary: Devastated upon receiving the news that her husband has been killed in a tragic car accident, a woman wakes up to find him still very much alive as she begins to slip into a confusing world where the past and the future become increasingly difficult to distinguish. Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) was an average housewife with a loving family, but when a policeman comes knocking on her door with news that her husband, Jim (Julian 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 to find her family still very much intact. 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. Now, in order to save the man she loves, Linda will have to piece together a perplexing mystery that seems to span two separate planes of reality. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Thriller

Features: Deleted scenes including an alternate ending with optional director's commentary
Gag reel
Glimpses of the future: making Premonition
Bringing order to chaos
Real premonitions
Commentary with director Mennan Yapo and Sandra Bullock

Premonition

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 07/17/2007

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 2.40:1

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 96 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: Blu-ray region A (North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia)

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Premonition
1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15
16. Chapter 16

Derek Armstrong

If there were an Oscar given out for poster art, the first one-sheets for Premonition would have been shoo-ins. These ads were not yet emblazoned with the haunted visage of Sandra Bullock, but they did offer up a face -- a face constructed minimally and memorably from bare tree branches. Alas, this stark design was no premonition of what we'd get from Premonition. It's not that the mood isn't there -- director Mennan Yapo and screenwriter Bill Kelly go a lot darker than might be expected with Bullock as the star. Kelly does a decent job keeping track of which information he divulges at which times, so that at least the non-chronological narrative plays by its own rules. The problem is that those rules don't make much sense. Why is Bullock's Linda Hanson living the days surrounding her husband's death out of sequence? Is she crazy? Or is she just caught in a series of conundrums that exists merely for the sake of a clever script? It's risky to legislate the logic of time travel/future sight, but as with most well-worn devices, there are guidelines that cause a viewer either to suspend disbelief, or just to disbelieve. It's possible to sit there and watch the days of Linda's life being shuffled like a deck, to marvel at the basic skill in how it's being executed, and to still find yourself asking, "Well, so what?" One complicating factor is that viewers never quite know if they want her to succeed in saving her husband. It's a good nod toward realism that Julian McMahon hasn't been her perfect spouse, but perhaps Premonition needed less ambiguity in order for viewers to feel emotionally invested in it. Maybe it could have taken the poster's white sky and dark tree branches as an example how to be more black and white. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Adam Shankman  Producer 
Ashok Amritraj  Producer 
Andrew Sugerman  Executive Producer 
Jennifer Gibgot  Producer 
Sunil Perkash  Producer 
Jon Jashni  Producer 
Klaus Badelt  Composer (Music Score) 
Mennan Yapo  Director 
Nick Hamson  Executive Producer 
Bill Kelly  Screenwriter 
Lars Sylvest  Executive Producer 
Sandra Bullock  Actor 
Julian McMahon  Actor 
Nia Long  Actor 
Kate Nelligan  Actor 
Amber Valletta  Actor 
Peter Stormare  Actor 
Shyann McClure  Actor 
Courtney Taylor Burness  Actor 
Marc Macaulay  Actor 
Irene Ziegler  Actor 
Phillip DeVona  Actor 
Ritchie Montgomery  Actor 
Matt Moore  Actor 
Laurel Whitsett  Actor 
Kristin Ketterer  Actor 
Marcus Brown  Actor 
Jason Douglas  Actor 
Dave Shaffer  Actor 
Floriana Tullio  Actor 
Mark Famiglietti  Actor 
E.J. Stapleton  Actor 
Jude Ciccolella  Actor 

Country: USA