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Bless the Child

Play trailer 2:14 Poster for Bless the Child R,  2000,  1h 47m,  Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she 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. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birthdate as several other recently missing children.
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Critics Consensus

Bless the Child squanders its talented cast on a plot that's more likely to inspire unintentional laughs than shivers.

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Dave McCoy Seattle Times Jul 22, 2014
1/4
A biblical "thriller" so predictable and preposterous that everyone involved should be banished to the confessional for their sins. Go to Full Review
Alexander Walker London Evening Standard Jul 22, 2014
I don't know if I'm getting more squeamish, or simply less charitable at being exploitatively manipulated and taken for a moron: possibly both. But I think others will share my disgust at several scenes in Bless The Child. Go to Full Review
Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Jun 3, 2013
0/5
A pox on the house of all involved. Go to Full Review
Eddie Harrison film-authority.com Nov 30, 2023
3/5
...a fun good-bad movie with some plot points to savour... Go to Full Review
Louis B. Hobson Jam! Movies Jul 22, 2014
Bless the Child is unsettling but it is never really terrifying. It's closer to a scary dream than a true nightmare. Go to Full Review
Dennis King Tulsa World Jul 22, 2014
This mystical saga of good versus evil gets a very low grade for originality, packing in as it does too many of the same acrane-mysterioso bits of religious imagery, moody thriller gimmicks and climactic machismo antics as the earlier films. Go to Full Review
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Luke L May 29, 2018 The special effects were very corny, taking me right out of the movie, which was also completely unscary.
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Chuck Russell

Director

Kim Basinger

Maggie O'Connor

Jimmy Smits

Agent John Travis

Holliston Coleman

Cody

Rufus Sewell

Eric Stark

Angela Bettis

Jenna

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Bless the Child

(L-R) Kim Basinger as Maggie O'Connor and Ian Holm as Reverend Grissom in "Bless the Child." Jimmy Smits as Agent John Travis in "Bless the Child." Kim Basinger as Maggie O'Connor in "Bless the Child." Jimmy Smits as Agent John Travis in "Bless the Child." (L-R) Holliston Coleman as Cody O'Connor and Rufus Sewell as Eric Stark in "Bless the Child." (L-R) Jimmy Smits as Agent John Travis, Angela Bettis as Jenna O'Connor and Kim Basinger as Maggie O'Connor in "Bless the Child." (L-R) Kim Basinger as Maggie O'Connor and Jimmy Smits as Agent John Travis in "Bless the Child." (L-R) Christina Ricci as Cheri Post and Kim Basinger as Maggie O'Connor in "Bless the Child." On the set of "Bless the Child." Kim Basinger as Maggie O'Connor in "Bless the Child." View more photos

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Synopsis When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she 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. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birthdate as several other recently missing children.
Director
Chuck Russell
Producer
Mace Neufeld
Screenwriter
Thomas Rickman, Ellen Green, Clifford Green, Thomas Rickman
Distributor
Icon Entertainment International, Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Paramount Pictures, Icon Entertainment International, BTC Productions KG
Rating
R (Drug Content|Brief Language|Violence)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 11, 2000, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$29.4M
Runtime
1h 47m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital, DTS, Surround
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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