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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Studio: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: Aug 11, 2000
Running Time: 107 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: Germany
synopsis
Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital -- that is, until her wayward kid sister, Jenna, shows up on her doorstep one rainy Christmas Eve and saddles Maggie with an autistic newborn child named Cody. Cody quickly touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new husband, Eric Stark, abducts Cody. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply "special." She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child and the love she inspires in those she touches.
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Maggie O'Connor
John Travis
Eric Stark
Reverend Grissom
Jenna
Cody
Cheri
Sister Rosa
Bugatti
Stuart
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reviews
Although director Chuck Russell captures a rich, textured look and lays on the ghoulish special effects (a river of red-eyed rats, ominous whispers, wraithlike demons), "Bless the Child" doesn't generate any real chill. It's not helped by the script, which throws in every clich‚ possible about angels, demons, hellfire and brimstone. There's no avoiding comparison with "The Sixth Sense," the success of which surely must have put some heat under this project. Unfortunately, it's a little too
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