Thoughts & Prayers
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| HBO Max | Release Date (Streaming): November 18, 2025 |
Summary:
Thoughts & Prayers chronicles the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities across America.
Genre(s):
Documentary
Runtime:
85 min
The Playlist
Nov 21, 2025
The film’s anger is muted but unmistakable. “Thoughts & Prayers” is about a nation that would rather teach children how to hide, how to bleed, how to die — than pass even the most modest gun reforms. It’s about an America that keeps choosing adaptation over prevention, ritual over change, and performative sorrow over meaningful protection.
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IndieWire
Nov 19, 2025
In a crumbling empire where common sense has been eroded by ideology, and the political will to solve a problem can’t hope to compete with the ghoulish impulse to profit from it, creating a new business sector might just be the only kind of healing that the richest country on Earth can afford.
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Nov 21, 2025
Directed by Zackary Canepari and Jessica Dimmock, it’s a sad black comedy, an Errol Morris sort of subject, shot in an Errol Morris sort of way — formal, neutral. The cinematography, by Jarred Alterman, is quite handsome and composed, amplifying the seriousness and eeriness, but also the banality and absurdity of the matter.
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