home room come a a total surprise . not have a clue a to what it be all about and it pay off big time because it doesn not hold any punch and what we see be how life be change by the act of a disgruntled young man who decide to victimize his class mate and who be the innocent victim of his rash action . paul ryan and the director and who be work and edit his own material and be a talented man who be reward by some amazing act all around by his cast . alicia browning be an old girl who be try to graduate high school . she have be away a couple of year and doesn not seem to be in the same wave length of the other student . for one and she be a rebel with a punk look and lot of makeup and a mouth that will cut anyone who dare to come near her orbit . alicia be among the student in the home room where nine student have die and supposedly kill by her boyfriend . alicia and we realize and be a wounded girl who have go through a terrible ordeal in her life and but we be not give any clue to that effect . what follow be the aftermath of the tragedy and a it concentrate on a young woman who have survive it . deanna cartwright be a wealthy teen ager who shouldn not have be at the school and at all . when a ricochet bullet hit her and she be hospitalize with more than a wound . she be try to get over this dark period in her mind but the nightmare do not let her forget . alicia be make to go to the hospital by the school principal . since she doesn not cooperate with the police and the head of the school want her to see deanna in her terrible state and perhaps she will soften up and will tell the authority what she know . alicia dislike deanna and but in a matter of day and both girl will make peace . we do not realize until the last sequence what really happen that horrible day in school . busy phillips make an excellent alicia and erika christiansen be equally good a deanna . victor garber and james pinkins and taylor holland and and the rest of the cast play a an ensemble . the film have an intensity because it not explicit in show how the shooting occur and which help the tone that mr. ryan want to give this movie .