home room

Director: paul f. ryan

Actor: busy philipps,erika christensen,victor garber,raphael sbarge

Data Published: Fri Apr 12 2002

Genres: Crime,Drama

Key Words: goth girl,high school,shooting,teen angst,bitterness

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264689/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Room_(film)

Description: Home Room is a movie starring Busy Philipps, Erika Christensen, and Victor Garber. A high school shooting has repercussions on the town and students.

Plot: A school massacre leaves seven students and the shooters parents dead and one student named Deanna Cartwright (Christensen) seriously injured. The shooter himself is dead, shot by police during the confrontation after the actual shooting, and the only witness (and possible suspect) is Alicia Browning (Philipps), a gothic student who is now under the attention of the detective in charge of the case, Det. Martin Van Zandt (Garber). The school principal asks Alicia to visit Deanna in the hospital. Right away, their differences are evident. Alicia is an outsider from a single-parent family who shuns the society that similarly shuns her, while Deanna is from a wealthy family, gets good grades and is popular with her classmates. At first, Deanna seems upbeat and cheerful, but soon it becomes apparent that beneath this exterior are psychological scars left behind by the incident. Alicia starts to empathize with her, as she herself is battling her own demons as well, including a previous suicide attempt. Through these similar emotional bonds, the two form an unlikely friendship as they both try to cope with their separate psychological problems.