Gripping Feature Nobody Wants To Shoot A Woman Screens At The 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival

Kerry Ann Enright’s Nobody Wants to Shoot a Woman is a noir crime drama with a feminist pulse and a Brooklyn soul. It opens with a funeral and a woman named Mary staring blankly at her husband’s body as other mourners surround her. The Lord’s Prayer is recited while her son stands beside her. She reaches out and clutches a white rose. That image alone tells us we’re entering not just a crime story, but a slow-burning, emotionally complex portrait of survival.

What follows is a story that plays out like a smoky blend of Wanda, Goodfellas, and a bruised domestic drama. In many ways, it’s a film about power- who has it, who abuses it, and what a woman has to do to take it back.

Mary is not your typical noir heroine. She…