Premonition

The seemingly perfect world of wife and mother Sandra Bullock starts to unravel when her husband (Julian McMahon) is killed in a car wreck, but that's just the beginning -- the next morning he's alive and well (if aloof and ominous). As she finds herself bouncing between two lives, with no idea which reality she faces when she wakes up each morning, she starts to believe she can prevent her husband's death. Everyone else thinks she's falling apart. "At its best, the new Sandra Bullock thriller ... plays like the kind of nightmare you can't shake," writes MSNBC critic John Hartl. "The details are so convincing, the alternative reality it presents seems so natural and carefully thought through, that it's hard to wake up to the fact that it's not happening at all." Nia Long and Kate Nelligan play her understandably worried support network, Amber Valletta is a mystery woman who keeps showing up, and Peter Stormare is a therapist she can't remember meeting. Mennan Yapo directs the unstuck-in-time thriller. Available in separate widescreen and full-screen editions, and in Blu-ray format.

Yapo and Bullock team up for a commentary track in the special-features section, which also includes various featurettes and other supplements. In addition to the 15-minute "Glimpses of the Future: Making Premonition," a conventional promotional featurette full of mutual admiration from the cast and creators, is the 12-minute "Bringing Order to Chaos," which unshuffles the timeline and recaps the film in chronological order (in compressed, digest form). The made-for-cable "Real Premonitions" is a documentary on people who claim to have had premonitions. The deleted scenes include an alternate ending with optional director's commentary, and there is a gag reel.