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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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