The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
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.
- Director
- Asia Argento
- Worldwide
- $176,153
Who's in it
Cast
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Story overview
What It's About
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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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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things returned 2.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $74,050
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $176,153
- Release date
- Sep 15, 2004
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, United Kingdom
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