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Child of God is a 2013 American crime drama film co-written and directed by James Franco, and starring Scott Haze, based on the novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy.
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 30, 2014 · With Child of God, however, Franco—together with his co-writer, long-term associate Vince Jolivette—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 Dying. Published in 1973, and set in the 1960s in Tennessee, the film is ...
Child of God: Directed by James Franco. With Scott Haze, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, Steve Hunter. A dispossessed, violent man's disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order.
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- James Franco
Jul 31, 2014 · A climactic scene in the backwoods Gothic creep-fest that is Child of God features the deranged title character, a necrophiliac/rapist/serial killer, emerging from underground, rising up...
Jul 31, 2014 · Lester is the child of God in the title, “much like yourself perhaps,” Mr. McCarthy writes, although given his dim worldview, the “perhaps” strikes the ear as an all-important and jaundiced...
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Sep 2, 2013 · James Franco's Child of God is enough to give you the shivers, being the story of serial killer Lester Ballard, a pathological country hick whom Cormac McCarthy wrote about. Apart from...
