The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

Movie • 2004 • Drama  

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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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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is someone eaten?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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Bringthebrokenbacktolife
The entire film a young boy is abused, emotionally, physically and sexually. Skip this film if it's triggering for you.
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Are there abusive parents?
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Sarah gaslights her son, telling him that his foster parents didn't really care about him and that they abandoned him because he was bad. She also makes him take pills and alcohol in which she lies and says its to make him feel better and to stop him from dying.
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Is someone stalked?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Addiction
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constantly, both adults, teenagers, and kids
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Animal
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Does a cat die?
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Are there spiders?
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They appear on screen at 01:13:34 (when Jeremiah has just closed the fridge and says "The coal!"). The spiders are three brown tarantulas. He soon throws something at them and they are buried under coals.
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there bugs?
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Does a horse die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does an animal die?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Assault
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone restrained?
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Bringthebrokenbacktolife
Jeremiah is raped by his mother's boyfriends. The first time, he is pinned down on a bed. The scenes imply the act but it's still highly disturbing and triggering. The second time, he is dressed in his mother's underwear to 'seduce' a adult man. He then 'changes' into the appearance of Sarah but the man still refers to her as Jeremiah.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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A man uses a rough-bristled dry brush to scrub Jeremiah's genitals in some sort of so-called religious ritual, and the boy screams out in pain.
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Is there body horror?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is there a hanging?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone buried alive?
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clownish
not on screen but if it bothers you that much a little girl is shown wearing a pink cast in a scene
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is someone tortured?
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Is there amputation?
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There's a disturbing scene where Jeremiah is dressed in a white dress/lingerie set in an attempt to 'seduce' an adult man. The camera slowly pans up his legs and he poses in 'suggestive' ways. Extremely uncomfortable and triggering.
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Does someone cheat?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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clownish
jeremiah pretty much is the 2nd time he goes with his mom
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Fear
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Is someone possessed?
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Mentioned.
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Are there ghosts?
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Gross
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Jeremiah's mother makes him drink a bottle of ipecac. He gets sick multiple times and continues gagging. Visual, audio, and remnants of it remain on his shirt in following scenes.
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Is there defecation?
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jeremiah and his mom spit multiple times at objects or people
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Medical
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Mentions of an IV. It's also taken out of the arm rapidly, but we see it from a far distance.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Mental Health
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Does someone self harm?
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Before the movie even starts. One of the production companies uses a strobe effect that would 110% cause a photosensitive epileptic to have an episode.

There's also flashing lights in the film as well.
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clownish
not shakey but theres multiple scenes where the camera is constantly moving
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Pregnancy
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Mentions of wanting to have had one. The way it's spoken about is very crude.
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Are there fat jokes?
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jeremiah is a boy and knows hes one but his mom wants him to be a girl for a moment and he just kinda goes with it
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Is there hate speech?
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F slur + racism ("We've got to do something with your nose. Someone f****d their slave, and you've got the nose to prove it")
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Bringthebrokenbacktolife
Sarah is a hooker and has sex with various men.
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Are there nude scenes?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Does a plane crash?
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Violence
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Is there gun violence?
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Nope. But there is a normal explosion.
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