‘The Wolf and the Lion’: The animals roar, but the script howls

“The Wolf and the Lion” (2022) – “Life happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” Alma (Molly Kunz) certainly knows this message.  She’s a top student at New York City’s St. Mary’s Academy for Music, and has her sights set on playing piano for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.  This scholarly young woman isn’t your standard bicoastal soon-to-be-professional.  She’s a small-town girl from Canada. Her parents passed away, and Alma’s only family connections are her godfather Joe (Graham Greene) and grandfather (Jean Drolet).  Unfortunately, as our movie begins, Alma…