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Synopsis: Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee, Child of God tells the story of Lester Ballard, a dispossessed, violent man whom the narrator describes as "a child of God much like yourself perhaps." Ballard's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, Ballard descends literally and figuratively to the level of a cave dweller as he falls deeper into crime and degradation.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): James Franco
Production: Well Go USA
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.5
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
41%
R
Year:
2013
104 min
Website
174 Views


I was supposed to have raped the old girl.

She nothing but a goddamn whore anyway.

White p*ssy's nothing but trouble.

I'll remember that.

But I mean, yeah, I guess it is.

I guess it is.

- I ain't never...I never heard it put that way.

- Flying home

Fly like a motherf***er

Flying home

I'm flying home

Flying home, huh?

I like that song.

Flying home Flying home

All right, John, why don't you stand

up and face that wall right there?

Face that wall.

Put your hands on the back of

your head, interlock your fingers.

Flying home

Flying like a motherf***er

I'm flying home

Yeah, you'll be flying home all right.

Home to your maker.

- Flying home

- Hey, john.

John.

I'm flying home

- Take it easy, John.

- Flying home

John, you take it easy.

I'm flying home

John, you hear me?

Yeah, I hear you.

I'm flying home

Flying home

I'm flying home

Like a motherf***er!

So what's your plan?

Go home.

What then?

What sort of meanness have you

got laid out for next?

I ain't got any laid out.

You might could give us a clue,

keep it more fair.

Let's see, failure to comply

with a court order,

public disturbance, assault and battery,

public drunk, rape...

I guess murder's next on the list.

Or what things is you done we

ain't found out yet?

I ain't done nothing.

You just got it in for me.

You get your ass on home, Ballard.

These people here in town

won't put up with your sh*t.

I ain't asked nothing from nobody

in this chickenshit town.

You get your ass on home.

Ain't a goddamn thing keeping me

here except you going on at the mouth.

He had that rifle from when

he was almost just a boy.

He worked for old man whaley setting

fence posts at eight cents a post to buy it.

Told me quit midmorning right in

the middle of the field the day

he got enough money.

I don't remember what he get for it,

but I think it come to over 700 posts.

I'll say one thing,

he could by god shoot it.

Hit anything he could see.

I seen him shoot a spider out of

a web in the top of big red oak

one time, and we was as far from

the tree as from here to the road yonder.

Step right up, folks. Step right up.

Test your skill, win a prize.

How about you, young man?

What do you have?

On the card, shoot out the

red dot in the middle.

You have five chances in which to do it,

and you pick any choice prize in the house.

Wow.

All right.

And, uh, the elbow rest is permitted.

Oh, is that right?

I don't need no rest.

Let me have that there tiger.

All of the red must be

removed in order to win.

You mean that there?

All the red must be removed.

Why don't you go and hand me

that there tiger?

Mm-hmm. Looks right.

- There it is.

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James Franco

James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor, filmmaker, and college instructor. For his role in 127 Hours (2010), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Franco is known for his roles in live-action films such as Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Milk (2008), Pineapple Express (2008), Eat, Pray, Love (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), This Is the End (2013), and The Disaster Artist (2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. He is known for his collaborations with fellow actor Seth Rogen, having appeared in eight films and one television series with him. Franco is also known for his work on television; 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 also portrayed the title character in the television biographical film James Dean (2001), for which he won a Golden Globe Award. Franco had a recurring role on the soap opera General Hospital (2009–2012) and starred in the limited series 11.22.63 (2016). He also stars in the David Simon created HBO drama The Deuce (2017–present). Franco volunteers for the Art of Elysium charity, and has also taught film classes at New York University, the University of Southern California, UCLA, Studio 4, Palo Alto High School, and Playhouse West. Several of his former students from Studio 4 and Playhouse West have stated that Franco had behaved in inappropriate or sexually exploitative ways while serving as their teacher. more…

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