Taglines: All he needed was a way out.
14-year-old Elijah “Eli” Solinski lives in Detroit with his stern adoptive father Hal, a widower. While scavenging an abandoned building for copper wiring to sell, Eli discovers the aftermath of a skirmish, with armored corpses and high-tech weaponry strewn about. He picks up a strange weapon, but drops it and flees after it mechanically activates.
That evening, Eli’s newly paroled older brother Jimmy, Hal’s biological son, returns home to Hal’s chagrin. Eli dreams of the weapon and sneaks out to retrieve it. Sneaking back in, he overhears Hal and Jimmy arguing. Jimmy owes $60,000 in protection money to Taylor, a local crime lord, and asks Hal to help him steal the money from Hal’s employer. Hal refuses and kicks Jimmy out.
The next night, Hal catches Jimmy and Taylor breaking into his office’s safe. Hal is unwilling to walk away, so Taylor shoots and kills him. Jimmy kills Taylor’s brother in the ensuing scuffle and flees with the money. Jimmy convinces Eli that Hal is stuck at a work emergency and wants to meet them at Lake Tahoe. Eli secretly packs the weapon, and they leave moments before Taylor and his gang arrive to ransack the house. Taylor vows to kill Jimmy, as well as Eli to avenge his own brother’s death.
Kin is a 2018 American science fiction film directed by Jonathan and Josh Baker and written by Daniel Casey, based on the 2014 short film Bag Man. The film stars Jack Reynor, Zoë Kravitz, Carrie Coon, Dennis Quaid, James Franco, and Myles Truitt. The story follows a young boy who finds a strange weapon and his newly paroled brother. The film was released in the United States on August 31, 2018, by Lionsgate. It was a box office bomb, grossing $10 million on a $30 million budget, and received generally unfavorable reviews from critics, who criticized the film’s uneven tone.
Kin (2018)
Directed by: Jonathan Baker, Josh Baker
Starring: Myles Truitt, Jack Reynor, Dennis Quaid, Zoë Kravitz, James Franco, Carrie Coon, Ian Matthews, Gavin Fox, Carleigh Beverly, Lily Gao, Michael B. Jordan, Stephane Garneau-Monten
Screenplay by: Jonathan Baker, Josh Baker
Production Design by: Ethan Tobman
Cinematography by: Larkin Seiple
Film Editing by: Mark Day
Costume Design by: Lea Carlson
Set Decoration by: Mary Kirkland
Art Direction by: Dennis Davenport
Music by: Mogwai
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for gun violence and intense action, suggestive material, language, thematic elements and drinking.
Distributed by: Lionsgate Films
Release Date: August 31, 2018
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