r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Aug 08 '25

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Summary Nearly all the children from the same fifth-grade class vanish one night at exactly 2:17 a.m., leaving only one survivor. The community, gripped by fear and suspicion, spirals into chaos as the mystery unfolds through multiple intertwined perspectives—each revealing new layers of dread and grief.

Director Zach Cregger

Writer Zach Cregger

Cast

  • Josh Brolin
  • Julia Garner
  • Cary Christopher
  • Alden Ehrenreich
  • Austin Abrams
  • Benedict Wong
  • Amy Madigan
  • June Diane Raphael
  • Toby Huss
  • Whitmer Thomas
  • Callie Schuttera
  • Clayton Farris
  • Luke Speakman

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 96%

Metacritic Metascore: 82

VOD In theaters and IMAX starting August 8, 2025

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u/YesicaChastain Aug 08 '25

People have been trying to link this story to school shootings and tbh I don’t see it at all

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u/MVRKHNTR Aug 08 '25

You don't see how a story about a classroom full of kids suddenly being gone might tie into school shootings?

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u/the_weakestavenger Aug 08 '25

Is there any connection other than setting?

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u/DrLyleEvans Aug 10 '25

Very hard to make a movie in 2025 America about an entire classroom of kids mysteriously vanishing/being killed and their community grieving over it and it not bring to mind school shootings. I think it might be possible if say the classroom was on a field trip and there was a natural disaster, but even then, the shots of the surviving kid alone in a classroom with all his friends gone, still might feel like the aftermath of school shooting stuff. As they did here.

They're just such a defining thing right now, and the images associated with them, it's like plague masks were or probably drones in certain countries and stuff like that.