Bless the Child
2000 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis (Jimmy Smits), an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply "special." She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child and the love she inspires in those she touches.
Direction Chuck Russell
Cast Kim Basinger · Jimmy Smits · Christina Ricci · Rufus Sewell · Ian Holm · Angela Bettis · Eugene Lipinski · Holliston Coleman · Michael Gaston · Brian Steele · Lumi Cavazos · Dimitra Arliss · Anne Betancourt · Helen Stenborg · Matthew Lemche · Dan Warry-Smith · Elisabeth Rosen · Nicole Lyn · Michael McLachlan · Jonathan Malen · Vince Corazza · David Eisner · Gary Hudson · Marcia Bennett · Peter Mensah · Yan Birch · Alexa Gilmour · Wanda-Lee Evans · Cedric Smith · Dwayne McLean · Brenda Devine · Christopher Redman · Jovanni Sy · Trevor Bain · Brian Heighton · Christopher Marren · Todd Schroeder · John Healy · Dylan Harman · David Sparrow · Michael Copeman · Neil Girvan · Carol Lempert · Tony Meyler · Roman Podhora · Arnold Pinnock · Teresa Pavlinek · Catherine Fitch · Neville Edwards · John Shepherd · Leeza Gibbons · Dan Duran · Sandi Stahlbrand · Mia Lee · Matt Birman · Meredith McGeachie · Henry Alessandroni · Austin Reed · Brianna Reed
Soundtrack Christopher Young
Screenplay Tom Rickman · George Kaplan · W.W. Wicket · Cathy Cash Spellman
Cinematography Peter Menzies Jr.
Original title Bless the Child
4.5
5K votes (FilmAffinity)
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