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  • 2014
  • R
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2014
  • R
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 1 h 44 m

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

Directed By: James Franco

Written By: Vince Jolivette, Cormac McCarthy, James Franco

  • 2014
  • R
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2014
  • R
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 1 h 44 m

Child of God

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
50
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary Louis Ballard's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, Ballard, a violent man, descends literally and figuratively to the level of a cave dweller as he falls deeper into crime and degradation.

Directed By: James Franco

Written By: Vince Jolivette, Cormac McCarthy, James Franco

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
50
29% Positive
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41% Mixed
7 Reviews
29% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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29% Positive
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41% Mixed
7 Reviews
29% Negative
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80
Jul 31, 2014
What Mr. Franco does have is Mr. Haze, whose mesmerizing performance gives the movie its ballast and its fitful, nervous energy.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
75
Jul 31, 2014
This is ambitious, challenging filmmaking, elevated by Franco's compassion and Haze's revelatory acting. OK, the film trips up on its attempt to lace tragedy with gallows humor. But Franco is out there trying something, balancing literature and cinema in a tightrope act that is never less than exciting to watch.
By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW

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60
Sep 17, 2013
The crazed intensity of Franco’s filmmaking, while duly evocative of Haze’s primitive state, is ultimately too hectic and unmodulated for anything to burrow deep and stay there.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 27, 2014
James Franco's general aesthetic is ugly and ambling, not so much because of its brownish-gray monochrome, but because it registers like the jerky result of a college kid wielding a DV cam.
By R. Kurt Osenlund FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 29, 2014
It could have been so much worse; we wish it was a lot better.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
30
Jul 29, 2014
What’s left in the absence of McCarthy’s prose is a sincere but fundamentally pointless ode to a madman, which does little more than invite viewers to gawk at the unspeakable.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW
25
Sep 17, 2013
The whole thing feels sort of tossed off, like it was made by film students over a couple of weekends.
By Oliver Lyttelton FULL REVIEW
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Production Company RabbitBandini Productions, Made In Film-Land
Release Date Aug 1, 2014
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating R
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Website http://childofgodfilm.wordpress.com/
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Awards

Playhouse West Film Festival - Los Angeles
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Hamptons International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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