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‘Eric Larue’ Review: Michael Shannon’s Powerful Directorial Debut With Superb Performances From Judy Greer and Alexander Skarsgard – Tribeca Film Festival

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Premiering Saturday night in the Tribeca Film Festival’s Spotlight Narrative category, Eric Larue is an intense and devastating account of the after effects of a school shooting, but the focus is almost entirely on the parents of that boy who shot and killed three male classmates and is now in prison.

Adapted by Brett Neveu from his own 2002 stage play, it has taken on new weight in the two decades since it was first presented at Chicago’s Red Orchid Theatre in light of the seemingly endless numbers of school shootings and the fact that the number one cause for deaths of young people is now by gun.

But for his feature film directorial debut actor Michael Shannon was most interested in looking at the effects of this traumatic life-changing incident from the point of view of the parents, those of the kids killed, and particularly the pair of the young teen who murdered them.

In a stunning turn Judy Greer plays Janice Larue, devastated by this event that has put her son away for life, and caused a deep and aching rift in her marriage to husband Ron Larue (an excellent Alexander Skarsgard).

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