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What it feels like to raise a murderer (MASS 2022)

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photo credit: Sundance.  “I yelled at him,  You have to start working, if you can’t be happy at least, you can do well.  He screamed at me, I don’t want to be happy, I don’t want to do well.  Why? I yelled. Why? Then we were screaming at each other. We were both so sad and we were afraid. I don’t know why, but then he said,  get out before I hit you, get out before I beat the shit out of you. I swear to God, it was terrifying. I went to my room and then I locked the door. Gail! I wished I had let him. I wish I had said, okay, hit me. You hit me sweetheart for as long as you would ever need. Because then, I would have known. I would have known who he truly was.”  A debut of film writer/director, Fran Kranz released in January 2022 by Bleecker Street, MASS stars Jason Issacs, Ann Dowd, Martha Plimpton, and Reed Birney as parents who agree to meet at a neutral venue, an episcopalian church, six years after a tragedy involving the murder of the child of one...