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8 | What can we say about ''The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things''? Well, [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Cole and Dylan Sprouse]] play Jeremiah, a boy who is taken from his foster parents to live with his drug-addicted, prostitute mother Sarah and along the way has sex with Music/MarilynManson, gets raped and molested several times, and at one point becomes a [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Christian]]! A very [[{{Squick}} squicky]] film to say the least. |
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11 | !!Tropes seen: |
12 | * AbusiveParents: Sarah, although she would have won a mother of the year award compared to the book. |
13 | ** Sarah's parents were also abusive to her. |
14 | * AnAesop: Some foster parents are more caring than biological ones. |
15 | * BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The film is based on an autobiographical novel by teenaged author JT [=LeRoy=]. Except that [=LeRoy=] turned out to be thirtysomething female Laura Albert. |
16 | * TheCameo: |
17 | ** Creator/WinonaRyder plays an extremely incompetent child psychiatrist. |
18 | ** Peter Fonda plays Jeremiah's [[TheFundamentalist Christian fundamentalist]] grandfather. |
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20 | %%* DiabolusExMachina: Nothing ever seems to go right. |
21 | %%* DirectedByCastMember: Asia Argento. |
22 | * DraggedIntoDrag: PlayedForDrama when Sarah forces Jeremiah to cross-dress so he can be her "little sister". |
23 | %%* {{Jerkass}}: Every single character apart from Jeremiah and Buddy. |
24 | * LiteraryAllusionTitle: Comes from the Literature/BookOfJeremiah 17:9 (KJV): |
25 | -->"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?" |
26 | * MoodWhiplash: Sarah. One minute she loves Jeremiah, the next she hates him. |
27 | * NightmareSequence: Several, usually featuring [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic massive, clawing red birds]]. |
28 | * TeenPregnancy: It's implied that Jeremiah was born when Sarah was 16/17. She confirms that she's 23 at the beginning of the film while picking Jeremiah up. |
29 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Jeremiah drinks alcohol at multiple points in the movie and even tries to seduce one of Sarah's boyfriends. |
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