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A Balasaur Score of 50 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes 41%, Metacritic 27/100. Audiences rate it 35 points higher than critics do. Most of the 3,275 2000s drama movies in this catalog score higher. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 35 points higher than critics do.
162 audience votes
Key crew
- Asia ArgentoScreenplay
- Asia ArgentoDirector
- Alessandro MaganiaScreenplay
- MorganOriginal Music Composer
- Kim GordonOriginal Music Composer
- Billy CorganOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Asia ArgentoSarah
- Jimmy BennettYoung Jeremiah
- Jeremy RennerEmerson
- Winona RyderPsychologist
- Ornella MutiGrandmother
- Peter FondaGrandfather
- Dylan SprouseOlder Jeremiah
- Kara KempSocial Worker #1
- Cole SprouseOlder Jeremiah
- Kip PardueLuther
- Ben FosterFleshy Boy
- Matt SchulzeKenny
