Title |
We need to talk about Kevin [DVD]. |
Published |
[Australia] : Hopscotch Entertainment : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment South Pacific, 2012. |
© 2011 |
Description |
1 DVD-video (108 min.) : sound, colour ; 12cm |
File type |
video file DVD video |
Notes |
Motion picture originally released in 2011. |
Based on the novel by Lionel Shriver. |
Winner of Writers' Guild of Great Britain (2012, best film screenplay); Women Film Critics Circle Awards (2011, best movie by a woman); National Board of Review, USA (2011, best actress); London Film Festival (2011, best film); London Critics Circle Film Awards (2012, British film of the year); Irish Film and Television Awards (2012, best director of photography --film/TV drama) and British Independent Film Awards (2011, best director). |
Credits |
Directed by Lynne Ramsay; screenplay written by Lynne Ramsay and Rory Stewart Kinnear. |
Performers |
Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller. |
Summary |
Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who tried to befriend him. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband, Franklyn. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails. |
Target audience note |
Censorship classification: MA 15+ |
Language note |
In English. English captions (descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired) |
Subjects |
Shriver, Lionel -- Film adaptations |
High school students -- United States -- Drama |
Mothers and sons -- Drama |
Massacres -- Drama |
Mass murder -- Drama |
Teenage boys -- Drama |
Genre |
Feature films. |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
Added Names |
Reilly, John C., 1965- |
Swinton, Tilda |
Ramsay, Lynne, 1969- |
Miller, Ezra |
Added Corporate Names |
BBC Films |
Piccadilly Pictures |
UK Film Council |