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  1. Child of God. 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...

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  2. Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee, in the 1950s, Child of God tells the story of Lester Ballard. Ballard is 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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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    • 1973
    • Cormac McCarthy
    • James Franco
  5. 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...

    • James Franco
    • Manohla Dargis
    • 104 min
  6. Aug 1, 2014 · McCarthy’s character study of a mentally degenerating Tennessee hills outcast named Lester Ballard (Scott Haze) — abandoned as a child, now a grunting flouter of civilization — argues a view of...

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  8. www.filmcomment.com › blog › film-of-the-week-childFilm of the Week: Child of God

    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 ...

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