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Child of God

R
CrimeDramaThriller
4.9/10(84 ratings)

A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, he descends to the level of a cave dweller and falls deeper into crime and degradation.

04-28-2014
1h 44m
Child of God
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Main Cast

James Franco

James Franco

James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor and filmmaker. For his role in 127 Hours (2010), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Franco is known for his roles in films, such as Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Milk (2008), Eat, Pray, Love (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). He is known for his collaborations with fellow actor Seth Rogen, having appeared in eight films and one television series with him, examples being Pineapple Express (2008), This Is the End (2013), Sausage Party (2016), and The Disaster Artist (2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Franco is also known for his work on television where his first prominent acting role was the character Daniel Desario on the short-lived ensemble comedy-drama Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), which developed a cult following. He portrayed the title character in the television biographical film James Dean (2001), for which he won a Golden Globe Award, and received nominations for Screen Actors Guild Award and Primetime Emmy Award. Franco had a recurring role on the daytime soap opera General Hospital (2009–2012) and starred in the limited series 11.22.63 (2016). He starred in the David Simon-created HBO drama The Deuce (2017–2019).

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Tim Blake Nelson

Tim Blake Nelson

Timothy Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American actor and playwright. Described as a "modern character actor, his roles include Delmar O'Donnell in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Gideon in Minority Report (2002), Doctor Steve Pendanski in Holes (2003), Doctor Jonathan Jacobo in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), Danny Dalton Jr. in Syriana (2005), Samuel Sterns in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Richard Schell in Lincoln (2012), the titular character of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and Henry McCarty in Old Henry (2021). He portrayed Wade Tillman / Looking Glass in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2020. Nelson's directorial credits include Eye of God (1997), which was nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and an Independent Spirit Award; O (2001), a modern-day adaptation of Othello; and the Holocaust drama The Grey Zone (2001). Eye of God and The Grey Zone were both adapted from Nelson's own plays. Nelson has also co-directed music videos for Billy Woods and Kenny Segal, including "Babylon by Bus" and "Soft Landing." He also co-directed the music video for Armand Hammer feat. Pink Siifu's "Trauma Mic." Nelson recently published his debut novel, City of Blows (2023), an epic group portrait of four men grappling for control of a script in a radically changing Hollywood. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Blake Nelson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Jim Parrack

Jim Parrack

Jim Parrack is an American actor. He has a recurring role as Hoyt Fortenberry in HBO series True Blood, and appeared in the film Battle: Los Angeles, which was released March 2011. Parrack was born on February 8, 1981 and grew up in the town of Allen, Texas. In 2001, Parrack moved to Los Angeles, California where he studied acting at The Stella Adler Academy  and then at the Playhouse West. Parrack and actress Ciera Parrack married on October 19, 2008. They have two dogs together, Maltipoos named Jack and Stella. Parrack is the president of 120 Productions, Inc. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim Parrack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Brian Lally

Brian Lally

Brian Lally was born on March 14, 1965 in Hollywood, California, USA. Brian is an actor and writer, known for L.A. Confidential (1997), As I Lay Dying (2013) and Funny People (2009).

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John Holt

John Holt

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Movie Details

Production Info

Director:
James Franco
Production:
Rabbit Bandini Productions, Made In Film-Land

Key Crew

Second Assistant Director:
Iris Torres
First Assistant Director:
Caroline Aragon
Sound Mixer:
Robert Langley
Boom Operator:
Dylan Goodwin
Sound Editor:
Neil Benezra

Locations and Languages

Country:
US
Filming:
US
Languages:
en