 In 2009, "The Vicious Kind" won several awards at film festivals around the world including Adam Scott for Best Actor at the Strasbourg International Film Festival, Scott for Best Performance at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, Lee Toland Krieger for Emerging Filmmaker at the Denver Film Festival, and Best Feature at the New Orleans Film Festival.The film opens with Caleb Sinclaire sitting in a diner, forlorn and smoking a cigarette.He begins to cry, but composes himself when his younger brother, Peter approaches the table.