We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012)

Release Date: January 27th, 2012

Director: Lynne Ramsay

Writers: Lionel Shriver, Lynne Ramsay, Rory Kinnear

Actors: Alex Manette, Ashley Gerasimovich, Ezra Miller, Jamal Mallory-McCree, James Chen, Jasper Newell, John C. Reilly, Kenneth Franklin, Lauren Fox, Leslie Lyles, Mark Elliot Wilson, Paul Diomede, Rock Duer, Siobhan Fallon, Tilda Swinton

Genre: Drama, Thriller

MPAA Rating: R

Official site: www.oscilloscope.net

Studio: Oscilloscope Laboratories

The mother of a teenage boy who went on a high-school killing spree tries to deal with her grief –
and feelings of responsibility for her childs actions.
A suspenseful and psychologically gripping exploration into a parent dealing with her child doing the unthinkable, “We Need to Talk About Kevin” is told from the perspective of Eva, played by Tilda Swinton in a tour-de-force performance.
Always an ambivalent mother, Eva and Kevin have had a contentious relationship literally from Kevin’s birth. Kevin (Ezra Miller), now 15-years-old, escalates the stakes when he commits a heinous act, leaving Eva to grapple with her feelings of grief and responsibility, as well as the ire of the community-at-large. “We Need to Talk About Kevin” explores nature vs. nurture on a whole new level as Eva’s own culpability is measured against Kevin’s innate evilness, while Ramsay’s masterful storytelling leaves enough moral ambiguity to keep the debate going.