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‘Run Amok’ Review: Ambitious Teen-Driven Movie About Student Musical Reliving Events Of High School Mass Shooting – Sundance Film Festival

Alyssa Marvin in 'Run Amok' Sundance Film Festival First, don’t be put off by the title. Run Amok, premiering Monday in the U. S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, is not a Chevy Chase comedy from the ’80s.

'Run Amok' review Sundance

'Run Amok' review Sundance

Credit: Deadline

Key Highlights

  • If this sells, that name is the first thing that should be changed, especially for a movie dealing with violence, death, trauma and especially grief in the aftermath of a high school shooting.
  • Related Stories Festivals Deadline Studio at Sundance Film Festival 2026: Seth Rogen, Olivia Wilde, Edward Norton, Salman Rushdie & More Reviews Sundance Film Festival 2026: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews In this case it also is therapy for Meg (Alyssa Marvin), a current student at a school where a shooting took place a decade earlier and took the lives of three students as well as a beloved teacher who also happened to be Meg’s mother.
  • Still dealing with the grief of that, the spunky, offbeat teenager comes up with an idea to create a musical surrounding the events of that darkest moment in her school’s history, and in the way she sees it, this student play will tell it all the way it was, no sugarcoating.
  • You can imagine the feedback she gets once the subject matter of this student show is revealed.
  • Supporting it, however, is Mr.
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