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'Run Amok' review: Mordantly offbeat teen comedy pushes limits in proud festival fashion

There was a time when Sundance offered up eccentric young misfits regularly -- think Dawn Wiener of "Welcome to the Dollhouse" or Napoleon Dynamite. "Run Amok" hero Meg fits squarely in this tradition ...
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‘Run Amok’ Review: A Drama About a School Shooting, and Therapizing It Through a Musical, Is Notable for the Performance of Alyssa Marvin

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Run Amok’ and Stanley Tucci’s ‘Big Night’ Among New Jersey’s Lighthouse Film Festival’s Line-Up – Film News in Brief There are ...
IndieWire

The Cast of ‘Run Amok’ Explain How Tragic Subject Matter Affects Two Generations Very Differently

Filmmaker NB Mager and stars Molly Ringwald, Patrick Wilson, Margaret Cho, Alyssa Marvin, and Sophia Torres visited the IndieWire Studio, presented by Dropbox, to discuss turning tragedy into art. NB ...
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Film Review: RUN AMOK: Builds Toward Promise But Loses Its Emotional Edge [Sundance 2026]

Run Amok (2026) Film Review from the 49th Annual Sundance Film Festival, a movie directed by NB Mager, written by NB Mager and starring Alyssa Marvin, Patrick Wilson, Margaret Cho, Sophia Torres, ...
Vulture

This Year’s Sundance Was Full of Failed Adults

A scene from Run Amok, one of many films on this year’s lineup focused on adults who, under the guise of helping kids, ultimately fail them. Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute Early on in NB ...
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Sundance Dark Comedy ‘Run Amok’ Gets North American Deal With Greenwich Entertainment

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to Sundance dramedy Run Amok, the feature directorial debut of NB Mager. The Tandem Pictures and Greenmachine ...
Deadline.com

Eric Roberts Among Cast Of Indie Comedy ‘Run Amok’ From Truman Hanks & William Bonnell

EXCLUSIVE: Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight) has signed on to star in the comedy drama Run Amok from co-writers Truman Hanks and William Bonnell. The film will shoot this summer in Los Angeles. The ...
Collider

Run Amok

Read up on the latest Run Amok News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. Run Amok is a drama centered on a teenage girl who chooses to produce a musical reenactment of a tragedy that ...
Collider

‘Run Amok’ Review: Molly Ringwald and Patrick Wilson Navigate a High School (Shooting) Musical in This Dark Satire

Taylor Gates is an Indiana native who earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Evansville. She fell in love with entertainment by watching shows about chaotic families like Full House ...
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‘Run Amok’s Patrick Wilson & Molly Ringwald On Why High School Shooting Movie Impacted Them As Parents — Sundance Studio

Logline: A teenage girl stages an elaborate musical about the one day her high school wishes it could forget. Panelists: NB Mager, Alyssa Marvin, Patrick Wilson, Molly Ringwald, Margaret Cho and ...
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Sundance 2026: 'Run Amok' is a Disastrously Bad High School Movie

There's always a few intriguing indie creations in the Sundance Film Festival line-up that are frustratingly bad, atrociously misguided films. Unfortunately I watched one of them at the 2026 fest ...