AT THE TRIPLEX: Grief and joy meet in ‘Mouse’

The first act of “Mouse” is brimming with life. Callie (Chloe Coleman) and Minnie (Katherine Mallen Kupferer) are wrapping up the final day of their junior year of high school in 2002, rolling through life with the kind of energy and optimism that takes hold when you’re young and summer is creeping in. As the night winds down, Callie begins discussing her dreams as if she can barely contain the pressure of all her potential. Minnie, seemingly, doesn’t share that ambition, content to resign herself to a quiet life in her best friend’s shadow. It’s when tragedy strikes—quickly, unexpectedly, and irrevocably—that a different kind of life takes over “Mouse.” Much like in their previous film, “Ghostlight,” writers and directors Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson are interested in what emerges when grief upends our plans and redefines who we are.

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