The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Behind the greatest hoax of our time is the heartbreaking story that started it all.

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Release Date

9/15/2004

Runtime

98 mins

Genres

Overview

Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$74,050

Revenue

$176,153

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A harrowing descent into the wreckage of maternal addiction and abuse, told with unflinching intimacy. This is a film about cycles of harm that doesn't look away, leaving you emotionally exhausted but gutted by its honesty.

Mood

Dread-soakedMournfulBleakUnsettling

Themes

FamilyComing of ageAddictionRedemption

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Linear

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Sexual contentChild endangermentSexual violenceAddictionGraphic violence

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