I’m not entirely convinced everything needs to be a movie. In this case, I don’t know that there is any way to make a film about the journey of a parent as they hear their child’s school has an active shooter without it feeling exploitative of our nation’s current epidemic of violence.
That didn’t stop director Phillip Noyce (“Dead Calm,” “Rabbit-Proof Fence”) and screenwriter Chris Sparling (“Buried”) from trying.
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