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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, Prime...
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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
Jul 30, 2014 · Lester is indeed a child—an orphan, seemingly traumatized by seeing his father hanged, and who knows what else. If you follow the religious implications of his being a “son of God,” then Lester is genuinely an anti-Christ—a parodic martyr, forsaken by his maker, constantly tested, embodying all humanity’s ugliest excesses on our ...
Jul 31, 2014 · Introduced while violently objecting to the auction of his family's foreclosed homestead, Lester Ballard is unsocialized and likely deranged. One of the movie's five narrators — neighbors whose...
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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Summaries. A dispossessed, violent man's disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee, "Child of God" is based on the third novel by acclaimed writer Cormac McCarthy, first published in 1973.
