Who's in It: Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Amurri
The Basics: Thurman survived a Columbine-style school shooting as a teenager (played by Evan Rachel Wood in flashbacks), and her best friend didn't. Years later, as an adult, she's experiencing a lot of post-trauma guilt, as her life slowly unravels before her eyes. But that's not what the title is about. That part's kind of a secret.
What's the Deal? I'm torn about this movie. On the one hand, it's a film with three female leads that's not completely ridiculous or about getting married or shoes or whatever. The roles are well-written and acted. You don't feel insulted. It's a somber, serious piece of filmmaking about women's lives. On the other hand, it's also total B.S., thanks to a big M. Night Shyamalan-ish twist ending that you start to smell coming as it moves closer to the final act. It's the kind of thing that makes you want to tear out your hair when it happens.
Plausibility Scale: With 10 being a Frederick Wiseman documentary and one being The Yellow Submarine, this one is about a four, mostly because it assumes that high-school-caste-system polar-opposites like rebel girl Wood and shy, religious kid Eva Amurri (Susan Sarandon's daughter, by the way) would ever become good friends in that High School Musical way. But the actors make it work in spite of that.
Kitten With a Whip: That's Wood, who's in a little danger of being typecast as the wild child if she doesn't start getting more grown up, non-delinquent roles soon. It doesn't help that she's dating Marilyn Manson. The new all-black outfits she pops up in on the red carpet are pretty though.