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We Need to Talk About Kevin

Synopsis

Based on the Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, We Need To Talk About Kevin is the story of Eva, Franklin and Kevin, who two days before his sixteenth birthday, goes on a horrific rampage. In the wake of his actions, his mother Eva grapples with her own feelings of grief and responsibility. She confronts the ultimate taboo - Did she ever love her son? And how much of what Kevin did was her fault?
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Details

Year
2011
Type of film
Features
Running time
112 mins
Format
35mm
Director
Lynne Ramsay
Producer
Jennifer Fox, Luc Roeg, Robert Salerno
Executive Producer
Paula Jalfon, Christine Langan, Christopher Figg, Lisa Lambert, Norman Merry, Steven Soderbergh, Tilda Swinton
Editor
Joe Bini
Screenwriter
Lynne Ramsay, Rory Kinnear
Director of Photography
Seamus McGarvey
Production Designer
Judy Becker
Sound
Ken Ishi
Music
Jonny Greenwood
Principal cast
Tilda Swinton, John C Reilly, Ezra Miller

Genre

Literary Adaption Woman Director Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Independent

32 Tavistock Street
London
WC2E 7PB
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7257 8734

Sales Company

Independent

32 Tavistock Street
London
WC2E 7PB
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7257 8734

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