We Had It Coming

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]

We Had It Coming
Film poster
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	December 6, 2019 (2019-12-06) (Whistler)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

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.