| Record Number |
852940 |
| Title |
We need to talk about Kevin [videorecording]. |
| Publisher/Date |
[Australia] : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment South Pacific, [2012]. |
| ©2011. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 DVD-video (108 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Contents note |
Based on the novel by Lionel Shriver. |
| DVD release of the 2011 motion picture. |
| Creation Note |
Directed by Lynne Ramsay. |
| Performer note |
Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller. |
| Summary Note |
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 child's actions. |
| 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 |
Rated: MA 15+ |
| Language note |
In English. English captions (descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired). |
| Subject |
High school students -- United States -- Drama |
| Teenage boys -- Drama |
| Mothers and sons -- Drama |
| Mass murder -- Drama |
| Massacres -- Drama |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| Feature films. |
| Added Author |
Swinton, Tilda actor. |
| Reilly, John C., 1965- actor. |
| Miller, Ezra actor. |
| Shriver, Lionel author. |
| Ramsay, Lynne, 1969- director. |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F WENE |
