Child of God
Child of God

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Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee, "Child of God" is based on the third novel by acclaimed writer Cormac McCarthy, first published in 1973. It tells the strange story of Lester Ballard, a dispossessed, violent man whom the narrator describes as "a child of God much like yourself perhaps." Ballard's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order in the 1960s. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, Ballard descends literall... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Child of God:

Scott Haze
Wade Hunt Williams
James Franco
Tim Blake Nelson
Jim Parrack
Fallon Goodson

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Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee, "Child of God" is based on the third novel by acclaimed writer Cormac McCarthy, first published in 1973. It tells the strange story of Lester Ballard, a dispossessed, violent man whom the narrator describes as "a child of God much like yourself perhaps." Ballard's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order in the 1960s. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, Ballard descends literally and figuratively to the level of a cave dweller as he falls deeper into crime and degradation.

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The Film Stage - 9/10 by Forrest CardamenisChild of God toes the line between success and failure - but, ultimately, leans into success, and occasionally threatens to leap into it entirely.
Rolling Stone - 8/10 by Peter TraversThis is ambitious, challenging filmmaking, elevated by Franco's compassion and Haze's revelatory acting. OK, the film trips up on its attempt to lace tragedy with gallows humor. But Franco is out there trying something, balancing literature and cinema in a tightrope act that is never less than exciting to watch.
The New Republic - 8/10 by William GiraldiFranco is determined to humanize Ballard in a misguided quest to make him likable, as if likability were a conduit to credibility and not just a pandering to audience members.
The Guardian - 8/10 by Xan BrooksChild of God is a shocking tale of backwoods lunacy and one man's descent into hell. Perhaps the most shocking thing about it is that it's really rather good.
Film Journal International - 8/10 by Nick Schager...the film makes its primary point so early on that it soon finds itself with nothing much to say - and, consequently, winds up becoming little more than a tedious and meandering bit of psycho-hillbilly performance art.
The New York Times - 8/10 by Manohla DargisWhat Mr. Franco does have is Mr. Haze, whose mesmerizing performance gives the movie its ballast and its fitful, nervous energy.
Washington Post - 8/10 by Michael O'SullivanFranco’s hand-held camerawork draws the story forward as unfussily as a shepherd leads a sheep, and yet with a kind of ghastly grandeur. This is functional filmmaking more than it is flashy. But there is, at its heart, a single virtuosic performance.
Salon.com - 8/10 by Andrew O'HehirThere's no denying Franco's ambition, and in "Child of God" you can see evidence (almost for the first time) that he's reaching for something he may one day attain.
Compuserve - 7/10 by Harvey S. KartenScott Haze's frightening performance propels this tale of necrophilia.
New York Magazine (Vulture) - 7/10 by David EdelsteinJames Franco’s adaptation of the sick little Cormac McCarthy period novel Child of God is surprisingly pretty good.

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