While she was sleeping; Sandra Bullock is a wife who tries to change fate in Premonition.

Whether it's in Groundhog Day, Memento, or Minority Report, filmmakers today enjoy few things more than taking the normal flow of time and cutting it into disorienting pieces. That's the crisis confronting Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock), the baffled heroine of Premonition, a brisk, unpredictable thriller about a woman who can't tell whether she's living in the present or the future. As the movie begins, Linda seems to be enjoying a happy middle-class life, with a storybook house, a dreamboat husband, Jim (Nip/Tuck's Julian McMahon), and two adorable daughters. But their idyllic existence is shattered when she hears that Jim's been killed in an auto accident. Linda's absolutely devastated, yet this is only the beginning. She awakes the next day to find Jim at home, safe and sound, and thinks she's just had a bad dream. Until the next morning, that is, when she wakes to find mourners downstairs dressed for her husband's funeral. For the rest of the movie, the increasingly frazzled Linda keeps waking up in different time frames, encountering a mysterious woman (Amber Valletta), a shifty-seeming doctor (Peter Stormare), and an ominous black bird. We're left to wonder whether she's actually crazy, is being tricked into thinking she's crazy (a la Gaslight) or, maybe, just maybe, will be able to save her husband with her second sight. In his first American film, German director Mennan Yappo is savvy enough not to overembellish the very clever script by Bill Kelly, which falters only in its final minute. Largely resisting the horror-film temptation to go "Boo!," he tells this fractured story with a taut realism that makes the weird events feel all the more uncanny. As Linda bounces between randomly occurring days, we begin seeing the fault lines in her seemingly perfect marriage and start identifying with her struggle to make sense of what's going on. One of the story's great pleasures is watching this wife (a bit like the memory-challenged hero in Memento) ...