Run Amok

United States2025103 minEnglish

A teenage girl stages an elaborate musical about the one day her high school wishes it could forget.

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A teenage girl stages an elaborate musical about the one day her high school wishes it could forget.

In her striking debut feature, writer-director NB Mager boldly wades into the thorny aftermath of a school tragedy with thoughtfulness and a refreshing recentering of the young people most directly affected. Working tonal miracles in her script’s balance of dark humor and heartbreak, Mager brings us front and center into the absurdist reality many students in America know all too well — one where adults’ empty promises, reactivity, and platitudes obscure genuine emotional processing. At the heart of it all is a breakout performance from Alyssa Marvin, who embodies Meg in all her layered complexity and affecting persistence as she looks to heal from the impossible. A tender testament to the power of theater told with unconventional charm, Run Amok presents a singular vision that subverts catharsis and honors the lingering lack of answers. — AS

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Credits

Director(s)
NB Mager
Screenwriter
NB Mager
Produced by
Julie Christeas
Frank Hall Green
Co-Producer
Caitlin Zvoleff
Executive Producers
Patrick Wilson
Director of Photography
Shachar Langlev
Production Designer
Danielle Webb
Editor
Max Berger
Costume Designer
Holly McClintock
Composer
Mandy Hoffman
Music Supervisor
Chris Mollere
Additional Cast
Bill Camp
Yul Vazquez
Nuha Jes Izman
Pilot Bunch
Grace Reiter
Jim Kaplan
Allan Lopez
Jesus Del Orden
Kal Wilson
Principal Cast
Alyssa Marvin
Patrick Wilson
Margaret Cho
Sophia Torres
Elizabeth Marvel
Molly Ringwald

Company
Tandem Pictures
Website
https://www.tandempictures.com/
Contact
Julie Christeas
julie@tandempictures.com

Meet the Artist

NB Mager

NB Mager is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker whose recent works include the Oscar-qualifying short Run Amok and the web series Quarantine, I Love You (featured in Beyond Film at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival). Her work has received grants and awards from arts organizations and film festivals across the country.

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