Movie Review: 'Eric LaRue'
We Are Broken
“Eric LaRue” is set one year after a fictional school shooting that took three teenaged lives in a small town. The movie opens on a darkened school hallway, light emanating from a single classroom. A metallic, dissonant score plays.
Cut to Janice LaRue (Judy Greer), the mother of the school shooter, in her parked car mustering strength to enter a grocery store. As she ponders a box of “Our Family” Frosted Flakes she encounters her unctuous Presbyterian pastor Steve Calhan (Paul Sparks).
“I haven’t been avoiding you,” she lies.
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