Movie
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2004-09-15
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Muse Productions, BlueLight, Wild Bunch, Curiously Bright Entertainment, Pretty Dangerous Films, Tartan Films, Minerva Pictures, Davis/Rice Productions
- Country
- France, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Asia Argento as Sarah
- Jimmy Bennett as Young Jeremiah
- Jeremy Renner as Emerson
- Winona Ryder as Psychologist
- Ornella Muti as Grandmother
- Peter Fonda as Grandfather
- Dylan Sprouse as Older Jeremiah
- Kara Kemp as Social Worker #1
- Cole Sprouse as Older Jeremiah
- Kip Pardue as Luther
- Ben Foster as Fleshy Boy
- Matt Schulze as Kenny
Crew
- Asia Argento - Director
- Asia Argento - Screenplay
- Alessandro Magania - Screenplay
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