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May 19, 2011 · A skinny white boy from Nassau falls for a buff black islander in “Children of God,” a lush Bahamian romance stalked by homophobia and religious hatred.
"Child of God" starts with Ballard losing every piece of property he owns except his rifle and retreating into the woods. He squats in a vacant shack, finds the body of a dead girl, brings her back to the shed and then starts courting her.
Mar 25, 1998 · The love-match triumphs, and Dallas, though scarred by child abuse, is an exemplary father to son Noah. One Christmas Eve, the town floozy is raped and murdered. An eyewitness and forensic evidence incriminate Dallas.
Jul 31, 2014 · “Child of God” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Gun violence, necrophilia, on-screen defecation.
- James Franco
- Manohla Dargis
- 104 min
Based on a 1973 novel by Cormac McCarthy, CHILD OF GOD concerns Lester Ballard (Scott Haze), an unhinged, unstable young man -- a "child of God much like yourself perhaps" -- who's thrown out of his childhood home and takes to living in the woods.
- James Franco
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze, Jim Parrack
A reviewer from the Library Journal said that Children of God "examines the problem of faith under fire with insight and clarity". A Publishers Weekly review determined Russell "uses the entertaining plot to explore sociological, spiritual, and scientific questions.
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Read Critics Reviews. TOP CRITIC. With Child of God, Franco has come up with something distinctive that both captures the atmosphere of McCarthy's neo-Gothic universe and suggests a...
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