We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) on Netflix
Eva Khatchadourian, once a travel writer, lives alone and visits her son Kevin in prison. Shunned by her neighbors, she recalls raising him and a relationship troubled since his infancy.
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Plot summary
Eva Khatchadourian is trying to piece together her life following the "incident". Once a successful travel writer, she is forced to take whatever job comes her way, which of late is as a clerk in a travel agency. She lives a solitary life as people who know about her situation openly shun her, even to the point of violent actions toward her. She, in turn, fosters that solitary life because of the incident, the aftermath of which has turned her into a meek and scared woman. That incident involved her son Kevin Khatchadourian, who is now approaching his eighteenth birthday. Eva and Kevin have always had a troubled relationship, even when he was an infant. Whatever troubles he saw, Franklin, Eva's complacent husband, just attributed it to Kevin being a typical boy. The incident may be seen by both Kevin and Eva as his ultimate act in defiance against his mother.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
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- Novelist Lionel Shriver turned down a consulting role on the adaptation, joking she'd "had it up to [her] eyeballs" with the book, though she remained concerned about how the film would handle Eva's unreliable narration.
- The long delay in production was caused by BBC Films having difficulty funding the high budget; Ramsay rewrote the script so the film could be made for a lower cost, and the UK Film Council awarded £18,510 to the production from its development fund.
- Director Lynne Ramsay came aboard the project after her earlier involvement adapting The Lovely Bones ended, and began developing a script with In the Bedroom writer Robert Festinger.
- The film's North American release was extremely limited, opening in a single theater and grossing just $24,587, ranking 53rd at the box office that week; its total worldwide gross came to just under $7.5 million.
