Judy Greer easily embraced Michael Shannon’s film-directing debut, the somber “Eric LaRue,” with its sadly relevant subject of children killing children. Inspired, obviously, by terrible ...

Shannon, who doesn’t act in the movie, focuses on one parent: Eric’s mother, Janice (Judy Greer), who has lived her life since the murders in a fog. She doesn’t know how to act and she doesn ...

But in Shannon’s feature film directorial debut, “Eric LaRue,” Shannon is stepping behind the camera to guide Greer. Brett Neveu adapted his 2002 stage play for the film, which centers on ...