Bill and Kate's 18-year-old son Sammy goes on a shooting rampage at his school and causes multiple fatalities before turning the gun on himself. The tragedy takes the parents completely by surprise and forces the pair on a stomach-turning roller coaster of grief, rage, guilt and resentment, as Bill's career and their relationships outside the house suffer amidst societal condemnation.
There are few surprises to this story. The parents, already contemplating separation when disaster strikes, seesaw from angry to despondent and hysterical to silent. When Kate seems to be recuperating and fixes up the house to sell, Bill plummets into a fresh round of insanity upon returning to work and threatens to again bring her down with him. I find it odd that neither see a psychiatrist: Bill tells his boss fuck off when he insists upon it. But unfortunately for the story, they isolate themselves in their grief and so suffer in a vacuum — making for a one-note and fairly self-indulgent screenplay. BEAUTIFUL BOY feels meant to be a journey in self-discovery, yet there’s little evidence of such in the writing.
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