Film

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things 2004

Directed by Asia Argento

  • Drama
  • 98 min
  • R

Behind the greatest hoax of our time is the heartbreaking story that started it all.

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.

Dramafireprostituterapedancerpolicealcoholfanaticstripperautobiographypsychologistreligionpedophile
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  • Sexual violence
  • Addiction
  • Harm to children
  • Bleak ending

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