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Aug 1, 2014 · Scott Haze makes a hell of a showing for himself as Lester Ballard, a half-mad, backwoods degenerate with no place in polite society. “Child of God” starts with Ballard losing every piece of property he owns except his rifle and retreating into the woods.
In 1960s Tennessee, a violent loner (Scott Haze) loses his last vestige of humanity as he enters a downward spiral of madness, crime and degradation. Rent Child of God on Fandango at Home,...
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Jul 31, 2014 · Directed by James Franco. Crime, Drama, Thriller. R. 1h 44m. By Manohla Dargis. July 31, 2014. Make no mistake: There is nothing pleasant about “Child of God,” James Franco’s very fine...
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- Manohla Dargis
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Jul 31, 2014 · Adapted from Cormac McCarthy's 1973 novel by the filmmaker and actor James Franco (who co-wrote the screenplay with Vince Jolivette), "Child of God" is shot without bells and whistles.
Aug 1, 2014 · Louis Ballard's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, Ballard, a violent man, descends literally and figuratively to the level of a cave dweller as he falls deeper into crime and degradation.
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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. Armed with his rifle, for which he saved up and bought as a child, he hunts and steals to survive.
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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 consolidation on the director's As I Lay...
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