We Had It Coming | |
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Directed by | Paul Barbeau |
Written by | Paul Barbeau |
Produced by | Paul Barbeau Melissa A. Smith |
Starring | Natalie Krill Alexia Fast Erin Agostino |
Cinematography | Benoit Jones-Vallée |
Edited by | Laurent Bernier |
Music by | Daniel Birch |
Production companies | Reprise Films Fairmount Films |
Distributed by | MK2 Mile End |
Release date |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
We Had It Coming is a Canadian thriller drama film, directed by Paul Barbeau and released in 2019. [1] The film stars Natalie Krill as Anna, a security guard working in a grade school who sets out to Montreal with her girlfriend Olivia (Alexia Fast) to investigate her younger sister Katja's (Sofie Holland) suicide after being recruited into a prostitution ring, only to end up ironically in a cat and mouse chase with a female recruiter (Erin Agostino) who grooms young girls for pimp Jack (Nabil Khatib). [2]
The film was originally conceived by Barbeau as centred around a male protagonist, but he subsequently decided to complete the screenplay with a woman for the lead role instead. [3]
The film premiered at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival, [4] before going into commercial release in 2020. [5]
At Whistler, Krill was one of four recipients, alongside Andrew Dunbar, Ryan McDonald and Andrea Stefancikova, of the Stars to Watch award. [1] The film had its international premiere at the Prague International Film Festival (Febiofest) in the Panorama section.
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