| We Had It Coming | |
| Director: | Paul Barbeau |
| Producer: | Paul Barbeau Melissa A. Smith |
| Starring: | Natalie Krill Alexia Fast Erin Agostino |
| Music: | Daniel Birch |
| Cinematography: | Benoit Jones-Vallée |
| Editing: | Laurent Bernier |
| Studio: | Reprise Films Fairmount Films |
| Distributor: | MK2 Mile End |
| Runtime: | 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.