Home Room (I) (2002): A high school shooting has repercussions on the town and students. (7.1)
Director: Paul F. Ryan
Stars: Busy Philipps, Erika Christensen and Victor Garber
Lots of the scenes have the air of forced confrontations. The story, after the shooting, is unrealistic. No student body will abandon its only member to survive the shooting. (This breaks the story's premise that only the "strange" kid will visit the popular kid in the hospital. There goes your entire storyline!) A student who's had previous grief is more likely to break down. It is not to say that two unlikely, and unfriendly, students won't help each other after a traumatic experience, but this storyline is forced, sort of like trying to move a string by pushing it. Yes, it gets somewhere, but at the end, there's nothing there, IMHO. My Rating: 5.5
