Child of God

2014 • 104 minutes
3.2
141 reviews
42%
Tomatometer
R
Rating
Eligible
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Based on the acclaimed 1973 Cormac McCarthy novel, director James Franco’s CHILD OF GOD takes place in 1960s Tennessee, where Lester Ballard is a dispossessed, violent man – one the narrator describes as “a child of God much like yourself.” Deprived first of his family and then his home, Ballard descends literally and figuratively to the level of a cave dweller, falling deeper into a disturbing life of crime and degradation.
Rating
R

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3.2
141 reviews
Ben Owens
January 30, 2017
The trailer shows a very different type of movie than what you're actually going to see. *****SPOILER ALERT***** This movie is really about a man who stumbles upon the corpses of a young couple dead in their car, he first decides to have sex with the female corpse, then decides he should bring the corpse with him, so a rather large portion of the film is him dragging the body through the woods & otherwise molesting it.
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Kyle Bridenstine
July 25, 2015
A very original movie. Honestly, I saw the most disturbing scene of my life; but that's what made it good. A movie this real only comes along maybe once every five or more years. I'm tough on my ratings, I only give five stars to my all time favorite movies, that's why I gave this a four.
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Joseph Allen
January 30, 2015
The person that wrote this should be locked up in jail or a mental asylum.awful horrable movie..wow im shocked someone actully made this into a film .and the lead actors voice and lisp when talks is annoying throughout the whole movie...
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