The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

2004 "Behind the greatest hoax of our time is the heartbreaking story that started it all."
6.2| 1h38m| en
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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.

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SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted
Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some
Dorathen Better Late Then Never
Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
Van Carballo (vanlove) SPOILER ALERT!!!!!This movie has a brilliant message that needs to be taken into consideration. This is a type of movie that makes you start to wonder, what are we really allowing ourselves to believe. Not necessarily To totally change our beliefs, but to consider the other side of our belief. That is what makes a great movie. There is a good and a bad side to everything and everyone, even religion. I think the most important message in this movie was that Sarah needed Jeremiah way more than Jeremiah needed Sarah, and sometimes it's good to switch it up a bit and say, "hey, the adult's are wrong this time." The symbolism was amazing as well.
Cormac Bronach I was glad that this particular story was fictitious but such cruelty does happen to boys by sadistic mothers & women. High female abuse statistics suggest that sexual abuse of females are way more prevalent than males. That is only so because male sexual abuse is not recorded world wide as females are. I'm glad a film finally came out exposing the truth that there are mothers & women out there just as evil & depraved toward sons/boys as fathers & men toward daughters/girls, opposing the societal feminist pseudo view that females are inherently kind & males are innately contemptible. But you wont hear me bullshit about how I've never had a problem with any male I've known or label all females fools that sicken me. The deceptive heart is a human trait, residing in every gender & race.
billcr12 A long title taken from a verse in the Bible, and directed by and starring Asia Argento, this unhappy tale of a drug addicted mother, Sarah(Argento) and her son, Jeremiah, from age seven to eleven. Mom has series of relationships with abusive men, and she abandons her boy and travels to Atlantic City with Emerson, who she leaves to head back home. Emerson shows up and rapes the boy, who is taken to a hospital, where his grandmother takes him to West Virginia, to live with his grandfather who leads a Christian cult. Three years later super mom reappears to reclaim the kid. Her newest boyfriend, Ken, leaves them at a truck stop where Sarah turns tricks, and decides to dress her boy up as a girl in order to attract men; my God, what a family. Just when you thought it was not possible, it gets worse. Mommy and her cross dressing boy wind up in a house which is a meth lab, which is too much to resist for Sarah, and after an explosion kills her most recent boyfriend, she is convinced that any other then soda and chips are poison. They shoplift and Jeremiah scavenges a hamburger out of a dumpster, which mom thinks will do him in, and so she gives him ipecac to force vomiting. A hospital is the next stop for the kid, and the psych ward for his mother. If you can make it this far, you might as well hang in there for the ending, which as wacky as the rest of this insane drama. Watch at your own risk.
wkingturner I were in rage and anger so had to bite my tongue to get through to the end of this too overrated movie, the whole concept is blunt and do not get me wrong the acting was "OK". This film will go into the list of the worst films I have seen, and hope it will be the last in this category. The story does not seem to have any solidity to it, and the ideas brought forth are of course very unrealistic. This will most definitely go into the top three of the films that has made me this uneasy. Save yourself some happiness and watch something else unless you are into dark films with no grounding or are planning to get anything from the experience. (I have to get up to ten lines per text for this comment to be accepted so this is the reason for these last few lines, so please do not waste your precious time reading this as it is not supposed to be read. I am only trying to use up my minimum characters because I have nothing else to say about the film.)