We Need to Talk About Kevin

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film psychological drama film

We Need to Talk About Kevin is a psychological drama film centered on a mother's fraught relationship with her increasingly disturbed son and the devastating consequences of his actions.

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Label	Occurrences
We Need to Talk About Kevin canonical	5
We Need to Talk About Kevin (film)	2
We Need to Talk About Kevin (novel)	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	film ⓘ psychological drama film ⓘ
authorOfSourceWork	Lionel Shriver ⓘ
basedOn	We Need to Talk About Kevin self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: We Need to Talk About Kevin (novel)
castMember	Ezra Miller ⓘ Jasper Newell ⓘ John C. Reilly ⓘ Rock Duer ⓘ Siobhan Fallon Hogan ⓘ Tilda Swinton ⓘ
cinematographer	Seamus McGarvey ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Canada ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
criticalReception	generally positive reviews ⓘ
director	Lynne Ramsay ⓘ
distributor	Curzon Artificial Eye ⓘ surface form: Artificial Eye Oscilloscope Laboratories ⓘ
editor	Joe Bini ⓘ
genre	drama film ⓘ psychological drama ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
mainCharacter	Eva Khatchadourian ⓘ Kevin Khatchadourian ⓘ
musicBy	Jonny Greenwood ⓘ
narrativeFocus	aftermath of a school massacre ⓘ mother–son relationship ⓘ
notableFor	portrayal of a disturbed child and his mother’s psychological trauma ⓘ
portrays	Ezra Miller as teenage Kevin Khatchadourian ⓘ Jasper Newell as young Kevin Khatchadourian ⓘ John C. Reilly as Franklin Plaskett ⓘ Rock Duer as toddler Kevin Khatchadourian ⓘ Tilda Swinton as Eva Khatchadourian ⓘ
premiereDate	2011-05-12 ⓘ
producer	Jennifer Fox ⓘ Nicolas Roeg ⓘ surface form: Luc Roeg Robert Salerno ⓘ
releaseYear	2011 ⓘ
runningTime	112 minutes ⓘ
screenwriter	Lynne Ramsay ⓘ Rory Stewart Kinnear ⓘ
setting	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
starredActorNominatedFor	Tilda Swinton for BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role ⓘ Tilda Swinton for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama ⓘ
theme	family dysfunction ⓘ nature versus nurture ⓘ parental guilt ⓘ
timeStructure	nonlinear narrative ⓘ
worldPremiereEvent	Cannes Film Festival ⓘ

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this entity surface form: We Need to Talk About Kevin (film)

Jennifer Fox → notableWork → We Need to Talk About Kevin ⓘ

Ezra Miller → notableWork → We Need to Talk About Kevin ⓘ

Seamus McGarvey → notableWork → We Need to Talk About Kevin ⓘ

this entity surface form: We Need to Talk About Kevin (film)

Christine Langan → notableWork → We Need to Talk About Kevin ⓘ

Katherine Matilda Swinton → notableWork → We Need to Talk About Kevin ⓘ

We Need to Talk About Kevin → basedOn → We Need to Talk About Kevin self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: We Need to Talk About Kevin (novel)