Child of God

Apr 28, 2014

1h 44m

★ 4.8

Murder is his salvation

Overview

A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, he descends to the level of a cave dweller and falls deeper into crime and degradation.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Rabbit Bandini Productions

Made In Film-Land

Child of God Trailers

Cast

Lester Ballard

Scott Haze

Narrator

Wade Hunt Williams

Jerry

James Franco

Sheriff Fate

Tim Blake Nelson

Deputy Cotton

Jim Parrack

Girly

Fallon Goodson

Ernest

Vince Jolivette

Boy With The Rifle

Jeremy Ambler

Lady In White

Elena McGhee

Hunter

Coby Batty

John Greer

Brian Lally

1st victim

Nina Ljeti

Margaret Jarnette discovers that her husband Victor has been cheating on her and confronts him. Outraged, Victor has his lawyer rewrite his will so that in the event of his death, his brother Richard will get custody of his daughter Muriel, and his wife won't. When Victor dies shortly afterward, Richard suspects that Margaret had murdered him and takes custody of Muriel. However, he soon begins to suspect that things may not be quite as cut-and-dried as he thought they were.

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