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Show all (10)Stuck in an unhappy but comfortable marriage, businessman Bill (Michael Sheen) and his wife, Kate (Maria Bello), are shocked when they learn that their son, Sammy (Kyle Gallner), has gone on a deadly shooting spree on his college campus before committing suicide. Struggling to avoid the media, the couple flees to the house of Kate's brother, Eric (Alan Tudyk). While the two try to remember what they might have done to drive Sammy to his desperate act, their mutual resentment builds.
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School shootings have become a devastating recurrence in America, so frequent that the movies have found multiple approaches toward the subject.
Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003) shows us the mundane activities at a public high school on its last day of normalcy. The more conventional Home Room (2002) dramatizes the trauma of students sifting through the aftermath. Most famously, Michael Moore used the Columbine massacre as a launching point for his loaded firearms documentary Bowling for Columbine. (Full review)