Mass, a gut-wrenching new film written and directed by actor Fran Kranz, heroically takes on the subject of school massacres and delivers it as socially trenchant drama, serving it up My Dinner with Andre-style — all talk about inaction.
After a brief, introductory sequence in a no-frills room inside a small-town house of worship between too-perky church lady Breeda Wool and all-business social worker Michelle N.
Carter, Jason Isaacs and Martha Plimpton arrive as the still-grieving parents of one of several high school kids slaughtered by a classmate.
The killer's parents, played by Reed Birney and Ann Dowd, arrive in short order to begin the awkward conversation that they all hope will bring some kind of closure, at least more than legal