PREVIEW: Mass (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Reed Birney (The Forty-Year-Old Version), Ann Dowd (Compliance), Jason Isaacs (The Death of Stalin), Martha Plimpton (I’m Not Rappaport), Breeda Wool (Erasing Eden), Kagen Albright (film debut), Michelle N. Carter (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Fran Kranz (film debut), director, writer, producer; Dylan Matlock (Mindless), Casey Wilder Mott (Hot Summer Nights) and J.P. Ouellette (Captured), producers; Darren Morze (The Last Apartment), composer; Ryan Jackson-Healy (Random Acts of Violence), cinematographer; Yang Hua Hu (The Public), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Years after a violent school shooting, grieving parents Jay (Isaacs) and Gail (Plimpton) agree to meet face-to-face with Richard (Birney) and Linda (Dowd), the parents of the shooter, for answers as to why their son was killed by the other couple’s son…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

This claustrophobic and utterly devastating drama charts the emotional aftermath of an unspeakable tragedy, with career-best performances from the likes of Jason Isaacs and Ann Dowd.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

THURSDAY 20TH JANUARY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON SKY CINEMA AND NOW

 

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