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‘Eric LaRue’ Review: A Drama About the Aftermath of a School Shooting Shouldn’t Have This Much Indie Attitude and This Little Insight
Judy Greer plays the mother of a school shooter and Alexander Skarsgård is her Jesus-geek husband in a drama that's mostly downbeat showboating.
The store has a major section of guns for sale (handguns, rifles, you name it), and a customer (Jacob Alexander), showing a level of aggression that mostly seems a product of overly telegraphed screenwriting, asks Janice to help him out, even though she insists it’s not her department. Ron attends prayer meetings at Redeemer in the company of his office human-resources manager, played by Alison Pill as such a flirtatious cuddlebug (“Jesus loves hugs!” she says) that the film’s version of comedy is encouraging us to wonder when these two prayer-group buddies are going to get a room. Judy Greer, an actor I’ve long revered, shows you the anger simmering just under Janice’s sullen passivity, though I wish the character were conceived of as less of a humdrum “typical” Middle American drone.
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