110 mins |
Rated
CTC
Directed by Fran Kranz
Starring Ann Dowd, Martha Plimpton, Reed Birney, Jason Isaacs
Two couples come together for a painful emotional reckoning in the aftermath of a school shooting in this acclaimed debut.
Jay (Jason Isaacs, Streamline, MIFF 2021) and Gail (Martha Plimpton) are parents to a murdered son; Richard (Reed Birney) and Linda (Ann Dowd, The Handmaid’s Tale), parents
to the killer. Meeting in a church antechamber six years after the massacre, they tentatively begin to breach the gulf separating understanding from resentment, forgiveness from blame. First-time writer/director Fran Kranz skillfully stages this confrontation as an expansive four-way dialogue that surges and flows as it builds towards a profound emotional
release, held aloft by finely calibrated performances from an exceptional cast of theatre veterans.
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Two couples come together for a painful emotional reckoning in the aftermath of a school shooting in this acclaimed debut.
Jay (Jason Isaacs, Streamline, MIFF 2021) and Gail (Martha Plimpton) are parents to a murdered son; Richard (Reed Birney) and Linda (Ann Dowd, The Handmaid’s Tale), parents
to the killer. Meeting in a church antechamber six years after the massacre, they tentatively begin to breach the gulf separating understanding from resentment, forgiveness from blame. First-time writer/director Fran Kranz skillfully stages this confrontation as an expansive four-way dialogue that surges and flows as it builds towards a profound emotional
release, held aloft by finely calibrated performances from an exceptional cast of theatre veterans.