“Before I Fall” is the perfect mix of “Mean Girls” and “Groundhog’s Day.”

It is based on a book of the same name by Lauren Oliver. It’s a story of a teenage girl Samantha who is forced to relive the last day of her life seven times until she can get it right. Samantha is the “it” girl and she and her friends are often mean toward others without realizing the consequences. When a late night car crash kills her and her friends, Samantha is forced to relive that night until she can fix the situation and make right some of the messes she and her friends made.

“Before I Fall” offers a basic moral lesson about treating others with kindness and how your actions can have a ripple effect and influence others more than you think it does. Throughout the movie, Samantha comes to realize how much her and her friends’ bullying affects those around them and works to rectify her mistake.

I would give this movie 4/5 stars. Many movies like this aimed at teenagers with such a lesson are either overdone or too moralistic, but “Before I Fall” wasn’t like that.