Talented Uma Thurman performed in a variety of movies, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to action thrillers and science fiction. The actress is best known for her films directed by Quentin Tarantino. As she always liked a challenge, Uma got one with her new movie, “The Life Before Her Eyes,” a dark drama about a mother haunted by a horrific decision made as a teen.

The film is directed by Vadim Perelman, responsible for the 2003 drama “House of Sand and Fog.” “The Life Before Her Eyes” debuted in several U.S. cities last week and would expand nationwide on Friday.

Uma Thurman is also the producer of the film. “I developed it, kicked it around and kept it alive for years, so it was very satisfying to finally get it made,” she told Reuters. The versatile actress mentioned the movie faces with the transition from girlhood to womanhood and the stress of a mother-daughter relationship.

Thurman also produced the 2002 HBO film “Hysterical Blindness.” “I'm very choosy about everything I do -- and also very lucky,” she said. However, she wasn’t very lucky in her private life, as she has been married and divorced twice, first from actor Gary Oldman, then to Ethan Hawke.

Uma stars as Diana in “The Life Before Her Eyes,” a teacher who seems living an idyllic life.  The audiences soon discover that she is haunted by a horrific event in the past, as a troubled gunman asked Diana and her best friend Maureen to make an agonizing choice between which girl should live and which should die. Fifteen years later, Diana struggles to raise her own rebellious daughter and faces the possibility her husband is cheating her.