Bless the Child
2000 · Movie · R · 107 min · ★ 5.4 · 10% critics
A nurse takes in her sister’s abandoned newborn and raises the child as her own, only to have the birth mother return years later and take her away with a new, unsettling partner. With no legal claim, she turns to an FBI investigator as a pattern of missing and murdered children points to a dangerous occult threat.
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Details
- Years
- 2000
- Release date
- 2000-08-11
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Critic score
- 10/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.4/10 (312 votes)
About
If you enjoy supernatural thrillers about faith, cults, and a guardian fighting to protect a gifted child, this may work for you; Not for you if you want subtle themes or big scares like The Seventh Sign.
Pros: solid good-vs-evil hook; engaging occult mystery; some tense chases | Cons: familiar Omen-like story; slow first half; heavy-handed religious tone
Themes
- sibling relationship
- autism
- satanism
- substitute
- demon
Cast & crew
Kim Basinger
as Maggie O'Connor
Jimmy Smits
as Agent John Travis
Rufus Sewell
as Eric Stark
Ian Holm
as Reverend Grissom
Angela Bettis
as Jenna
Holliston Coleman
as Cody
Christina Ricci
as Cheri Post
Lumi Cavazos
as Sister Rosa
Michael Gaston
as Det. Frank Bugatti
Eugene Lipinski
as Stuart
Directed by Chuck Russell