![]() ![]() Fed up with it, her mother (Jennifer Beals) says, “You’re grounded!” to which Samantha replies, “I’m already grounded!” You know, by the universe. First she decides to cut loose and do whatever she wants: dress trashy, sleep with her boyfriend, be an even bigger bitch than usual, etc. Once Samantha realizes she’s repeating the same day, and that she repeats it even when she manages to avoid dying at the end of it, she goes through two phases. These brats are AWFUL (Samantha is actually the least repellant among them), calling each other “bae” and Instagramming everything, to the extent that we are disappointed when only one of them is killed. Seems she was a bit of a mean girl, abetting queen bee Lindsay (Halston Sage) and the others in their clique as they harassed unpopular students. Based on a young-adult novel by Lauren Oliver (not Nicholas Sparks), this is the story of a high school senior named Samantha Kingston (Deutch) who dies one Friday night and then keeps reliving her final day. ![]() To be fair, Deutch (last seen as James Franco’s girlfriend in “Why Him?”) gives a committed, nuanced performance that is many degrees better than the film deserves. ![]() The same lessons are to be learned, in the same order, only instead of a funny Bill Murray learning them, it’s a brooding Zoey Deutch. “Before I Fall” is what would happen if Nicholas Sparks rewrote “Groundhog Day” as a teen-angst melodrama. ![]()
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