Premonition is a 2007 drama film directed by Mennan Yapo and starring Sandra Bullock and Julian McMahon. The film was shot at locations throughout Louisiana.

Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) has a beautiful house, a loving husband and two adorable daughters. Her life is perfect, until the day she receives the devastating news that her husband Jim has died in a car accident. When she wakes up the next morning to find him alive and well, she assumes it was all a dream, but is shaken by how vivid it felt. She soon realizes it wasn't a dream, and her world is turned upside down as the surreal circumstances lead her to discover that her perfect life may not have been all that it appeared. Desperate to save her family, Linda begins a furious race against time and fate to try to preserve everything that she and Jim have built together.

During the course of the film, Linda realizes that she is living an entire week "out of order". Although the events of each day are in order, the days themselves are not.

The order of days in the film is as follows:

Thursday
Linda learns that her husband died the previous day.

Monday
Linda awakens to find that her husband has not died yet.

Saturday
Linda finds an empty lithium bottle in the sink, prescribed by a Dr. Norman Roth.
Linda sees that her oldest daughter's face has been badly cut and stitched up.
The funeral.
Linda spots Claire watching the funeral. She attempts to talk to her but has no idea who she is, even though Claire states they had talked 'yesterday'.
Linda attempts to contact Dr. Roth. She finds the page in the Yellow Pages with his name on it crumpled up and thrown in a wastepaper can. She calls the number but his office is closed.
Linda is involuntarily committed to a mental hospital.

Tuesday
Linda visits Dr. Roth's office. He prescribes the lithium.
Linda's oldest daughter runs through a plate glass window, causing the cuts she saw on Saturday.

Friday
Linda confronts Claire about the affair that she was planning on having with Jim.
Linda handles all the funeral arrangements and sets the funeral date for Saturday.
Linda finds out that Jim had tripled his death benefits before he left for his trip on Wednesday morning.
Linda scouts out new lakefront property.
Sunday
Wednesday
Linda's husband dies. In a tragic twist, Linda, in an effort to prevent her husband's death, indirectly causes it.
At the end of the movie it is shown that Linda is pregnant. Thus the priests foresight to telling Linda to believe in something other than herself.

The primary theme of the film is one of predestination or determinism for the main character. Although Linda experiences the days out of order, the events of each are apparently already determined, whether she has actually experienced them or not. Without consciously attempting to do so, Linda fulfills the necessary preconditions for later days by taking certain actions during earlier days.

For example, on Saturday, Linda searches the phonebook, attempting to find the phone number for the previously-unknown doctor on the pill bottle she discovers. However, she finds that the page has been torn out and discarded. On Tuesday (which she experiences later, despite it taking place chronologically earlier), she herself tears the page out and throws it away, ensuring that it will later be missing when she looks for it.

Unlike in films such as The Butterfly Effect, Linda is unable to radically reshape the future. Instead, as suggested by a priest who she consults during the film, it is only her interpretation and how she chooses to deal with the events which can change.

As of March 18, 2007, the film has an 8% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with 97 rotten reviews and 9 fresh. But even with the weak reviews to-date, several critics, including the New York Observer's Rex Reed, commend Sandra Bullock for her performance.