Before I Fall

Movie Review
Release on: Mar 17, 2017

Movie name	:	Before I Fall
Genres	:	Drama, Mystery
Run time	:	98 min
Produced by	:	Matthew Kaplan Brian Robbins Jonathan Shestack
Directed by	:	Ry Russo-Young
Music by	:	Adam Taylor
Writers	:	Maria Maggenti, Lauren Oliver
Cinematography	:	Michael Fimognari
Edited by	:	Joe Landauer
Production	:	Awesomeness Films Jon Shestack Productions
Countries	:	USA

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Stars : Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, Logan Miller, Kian Lawley, Elena Kampouris, Cynthy Wu, Medalion Rahimi, Erica Tremblay, Liv Hewson, Nicholas Lea, Chelsea Kaur Gill, Roan Curtis, Claire Margaret Corlett, Kaila Kondo, Arielle Tuliao, Keith Powers, Bal Nagra, Liam Hall, Alyssa Lynch, Taylor Russell, Jennifer Beals, Diego Boneta, David Hardware

Story : What if you had only one day to change absolutely everything? Samantha Kingston has it all: the perfect friends, the perfect guy, and a seemingly perfect future. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, Sam wakes up with no future at all. Trapped reliving the same day over and over she begins to question just how perfect her life really was. And as she begins to untangle the mystery of a life suddenly derailed, she must also unwind the secrets of the people closest to her, and discover the power of a single day to make a difference, not just in her own life, but in the lives of those around her - before she runs out of time for good.

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Can we be done with movies using Groundhog Day as a narrative tool, please? The idea of a person reliving the same day lost its novelty on February 13, 1993, a day after the Bill Murray-starrer hit theaters. It’s 2017 now, and we’re still being served the same cheap knock-offs, and we don’t know how to escape this loop.

Just like Samantha (Deutch) doesn’t know how to escape her own Groundhog Day - the day of her death. Sam is your regular high-school girl with a blindingly stereotypical group of friends: the sassy mean girl (Sage), the drunk girl (Rahimi) and the Asian know-it-all (Wu). She wakes up on her judgement day, is mean to her parents, rides to school with her “baes”, breaks hearts, attends a party, gets into a fight, rides back home, meets with an accident and dies. Rinse and repeat.

If you must tell a story where the character is living through the same day every day, must you make it such a drab day? Must the protagonist wear the same outfit every day? Must they fall into the predictable pattern of rebelling on one day, and being saintly on the next? Why is this story even worth telling? Before I Fall leaves you with more questions than answers.

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Before I Fall

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