The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

2004·98'

Letterboxd TMDB #26579

Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.

Cast

Asia Argento Sarah

Jimmy Bennett Young Jeremiah

Jeremy Renner Emerson

Winona Ryder Psychologist

Ornella Muti Grandmother

Peter Fonda Grandfather

Dylan Sprouse Older Jeremiah

Kara Kemp Social Worker #1

Cole Sprouse Older Jeremiah

Kip Pardue Luther

Ben Foster Fleshy Boy

Matt Schulze Kenny