Good Guy with a Gun

[Plays Dec. 2 as part of Dancing with Films at NYC's Regal Union Square at 9:30 p.m.; for more information, log on to https://danceswithfilms.com/GOOD%20GUY%20WITH%20A%20GUN/.] After his father tries to help a robbery victim and is gunned down in Chicago in Josh Mossman's gritty, coming-of-age, dark, well-acted, tense, multilayered, unpredictable, 109-minute film, an angry, rebellious, grieving, 17-year-old student (Beck Nolan) moves with his mechanically-inclined mother (Tiffany Bedwells), who is befriended by a kindhearted neighbor (Ian Barford), to rural Illinois for a new start and when he makes friends with another teenager (Jack Cain) and some hotheaded, gun-toting locals (Dan Waller, David Stobbe, et al.), he makes a series of poor, life-changing decisions as he tries to figure out where his life goes from here.
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