The Life Before This

The Life Before This

Release Date:  10/24/2000
Country of Release:  Canada
Length:  92 minutes
MPAA:  R
Medium:  Video
Genre:  ACT CRI DRA
Release Message:  Several innocent bystanders are injured or killed when two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into the neighborhood cafe. Starring Catherine O'Hara.
Description:  Several innocent bystanders are injured or killed when two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into the neighborhood cafe. In Toronto, after a holdup goes awry, two gunmen kill or wound several people at a cafe. A flashback takes us through the victims' day. Sheena, a talkative woman approaching middle age, vacillates about showing up for a blind date. Jake, an attorney who has "borrowed" from a client's trust fund, faces ruin when she dies. Maggie, the ugly-duckling daughter of a TV star, gets an audition on her own and may be late for her shift at the cafe. A laconic bug exterminator, grieving for his dead daughter, goes through a day of pain and memory. Two prepubescent girls set up an elderly teacher on a charge of sexual impropriety. Can any make decisions that change the shooting outcome?