A typical American high school. Classwork, football, gossip, socializing. For each student, high school is a different experience–stimulating, friendly, traumatic, lonely, hard. An ordinary high school day. Except that it’s not. Today, two ordinary teenage boys living in a suburb of Portland, Oregon go on a shooting rampage through their school in this riveting and controversial examination of the epidemic of gun violence plaguing the United States. From legendary director Gus Van Sant and winner of the Palme d’Or and the Best Director award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.