Fran Kranz's debut feature 'Mass' powerfully explores the subject of a school shooting from the perspectives of parents.
Four grief-stricken parents congregate in a quiet room within a humble church to summon a form of closure. They’re all still nursing unhealed wounds years after an unspeakable school shooting. Two of them mourn their slain teenager, while the other pair grieve the death of the perpetrator. Unguarded in the privacy of this space, with no legal liabilities preventing the disclosure of their individual truths, a sorrowful dialogue unfolds.
However, a couple of months into the writing process, the work shifted into a stage play. Eventually, the concept turned back into a movie, but even then, Kranz was writing with theater actors in mind. The actress marveled at the script’s nuance. Kranz spent three years intensely studying the realities of families who’d experienced similar horrors and how they’d moved forward. The material was enough for Plimpton to understand her character’s psychological landscape and deterred her from replicating a specific person’s journey.
It wasn’t until the other three characters had been cast and the location in Sun Valley, Idaho, had been secured that Linda started to come into focus. It was an “aha moment.
Martha Plimpton, left, was director Fran Kranz’s first choice for “Mass,” but finding Ann Dowd, right, was a more unexpected surprise.
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