When the story begins, Sheila Page (Joan Lesley) has just killed her husband, Barney (Louis Hayward), and she is naturally very distraught. She wishes she hadn't done it and wishes she had the last year to do over again...and miraculously that's what happens next. Now Sheila has a chance to do things differently, though repeatedly whatever she did to avoid this fate, it ends up happening the same way anyway. To make things worse, Sheila doesn't seem to have learned a lot by getting her second chance! There just seems to be a horrible sense that fate is inescapable.
As I watched the Pages going through that year ago, I kept thinking that I, too, would have shot Barney! He was the worst of husbands...and I thought that if he came back to life and Sheila had the year to live over, she would have divorced him. After all, he was an alcoholic, a cheater and a nasty guy down deep...and he only gets worse as the film progresses.
Overall, it's a very unusual plot but some of the wonderfulness of this is lost because the character, Sheila, was so dopey and seemed to learn nothing by having the year to do again. Worth seeing but frustrating at times because you can't tell if it's all about fate...or Sheila just being a very, very slow learner.
As I watched the Pages going through that year ago, I kept thinking that I, too, would have shot Barney! He was the worst of husbands...and I thought that if he came back to life and Sheila had the year to live over, she would have divorced him. After all, he was an alcoholic, a cheater and a nasty guy down deep...and he only gets worse as the film progresses.
Overall, it's a very unusual plot but some of the wonderfulness of this is lost because the character, Sheila, was so dopey and seemed to learn nothing by having the year to do again. Worth seeing but frustrating at times because you can't tell if it's all about fate...or Sheila just being a very, very slow learner.