The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

What can we say about The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things? Well, Cole and Dylan Sprouse plays Jeremiah, a boy, who is taken from his foster parents to live with his drug-addicted, prostitute mother Sarah and along the way has sex with Marilyn Manson, gets raped and molested several times, and at one point becomes a Christian!. A very Squicky film to say the least.

Tropes used in The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things include:

Abusive Parents: Sarah although she would have won a mother of the year award compared to the book
Department of Child Disservices
Diabolus Ex Machina: Nothing ever seems to go right.
From a Certain Point of View: Meta example. The film is based on an autobiographical novel by teenaged author JT LeRoy. Except that LeRoy turned out to be thirtysomething female Laura Albert.
Hey, It's That Guy!: Marilyn Manson plays a heartwarming role as someone who willingly is seduced by and has sex with a 11 year old boy.
- Winona Ryder plays a extremely incompetent child psychiatrist.
- Peter Fonda plays Jeremiah's christian fundamentalist grandfather.
Nightmare Fuel: Lots
Nightmare Sequence: Several, usually featuring massive, clawing red birds
Squick: Ohhhh so much.
Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: Justified.

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