Valentine Road (2012)

Director: Marta Cunningham
Run Time: 99 min.
Call Number: HV9067.H6 V35 2014

"In February of [2008], a 14-year-old, Brandon McInerney, shot a fellow student named Lawrence King in the head in the school computer lab in front of a room full of classmates. Mr. King, an eighth grader who was openly exploring his sexual identity and had shown unwanted attention toward Mr. McInerney, died two days later. . . . Mr. McInerney is now in prison, but if you’ve forgotten the details of how this matter was resolved, do yourself a favor and don’t look them up, because [Marta] Cunningham has expertly built the narrative of this seemingly open-and-shut case to its uneasy conclusion."

—Neil Genzlinger, New York Times