Director Vadim Perelman's belated follow-up to the sophisticated and thoughtful House of Sand and Fog is a disappointment. This is a reflective drama partly told in flashback, starring Uma Thurman, as a mother who 15 years earlier, was a survivor of a Columbine-style massacre. The acting is pretty decent, but it is a major flaw that the teenage Evan Rachel Wood is clearly never going to grow up to look anything like the adult Thurman, so the two, cast as the same character at different ages, never seem like the same person. They don't share many personality traits either. Wood is the bad girl who is best friends with her polar opposite, churchgoer Eva Amurri, and the Sophie's Choice-style option forced on them by a killer seems dramatically improbable, to say the least. There are moments that hint at the quality that brought Perelman's previous film three Oscar nominations, but the film is betrayed by its uncertain tone.