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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

2004 · 98 min

Drama

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.

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Appeals to viewers drawn to unflinching, emotionally punishing family dramas about cycles of trauma and damaged attachment.

Tone
bleak, dread, melancholic
Payoff
heartbreak, reflection
Pacing
steady
Intensity
harrowing
Structure
linear
Themes
childhood trauma, parental instability, religious extremism, addiction, abuse
Setting
contemporary, transient roadside and seedy urban environments

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