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 end credit scenes?
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there decapitation?
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Does a non-human character die?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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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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Is there domestic violence?
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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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constantly, both adults, teenagers, and kids
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Are animals abused?
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Does a cat die?
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Does an animal die?
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Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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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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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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Are there bugs?
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Are there snakes?
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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 pedophilia?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone restrained?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is there excessive gore?
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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 finger/toe mutilation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there a hanging?
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Is there amputation?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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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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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone tortured?
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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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jeremiah pretty much is the 2nd time he goes with his mom
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Are there ghosts?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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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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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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Does someone have cancer?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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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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not shakey but theres multiple scenes where the camera is constantly moving
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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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Is there childbirth?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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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 homophobic slurs?
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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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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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Does the black guy die first?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Sarah is a hooker and has sex with various men.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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