Bless the Child Image
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Overwhelming dislike - based on 27 Critics

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 15 Ratings

Summary: Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis, an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply "special." She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child and the love she inspires in those she touches.
Runtime: 107 min
Rating: Rated R for violence, drug content and brief language.
Production: Paramount Pictures
Genres: Thriller, Horror
Countries: USA, Germany
Language: English
Home Release Date: Feb 13, 2001
Director Credit
Chuck Russell Director
Writer Credit
Cathy Cash Spellman Novel
Clifford Green Screenplay
Ellen Green Screenplay
Thomas Rickman Screenplay
Principal Cast Credit
Jimmy Smits Agent John Travis
Kim Basinger Maggie O'Connor
Rufus Sewell Eric Stark
Cast Credit
Angela Bettis Jenna O'Connor
Anne Betancourt Maria
Christina Ricci Cheri Post
Dan Warry-Smith New Dawn Kid
Dimitra Arliss Dahnya
Eugene Lipinski Stuart
Helen Stenborg Sister Joseph
Holliston Coleman Cody O'Connor
Ian Holm Reverend Grissom
Lumi Cavazos Sister Rosa
Matthew Lemche New Dawn Kid At Van
Michael Gaston Det. Frank Bugatti
Producer Credit
Bruce Davey Executive Producer
Lis Kern Executive Producer
Mace Neufeld Producer
Robert Rehme Executive Producer
Stratton Leopold Co-Producer
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