American Gun

Aric Avelino's complex, ambitious film weaves together three separate story lines that unfold in three different U.S. cities, and cleaves to playwright Anton Chekhov's famous dictum concerning guns: If there's a gun in Act 1, it must go off by Act 3. Many guns litter this multicharacter examination of the insidious ways firearms have become a fixture in American life, but only one is ever fired and with devastating results. Three years after a pair of teenage gunmen ended the lives of several teachers and fellow students at an Oregon high school then turned their weapons on themselves, Janet (Marcia Gay Harden), whose son was one of the killers, and the police office...