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Bless the child

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Movie propaganda

Mankind's last hope just turned six.

Omens and concepts of good versus evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's (Kim Basinger) well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital - that is, until her wayward kid sister, Jenna (Angela Bettis), shows up on her doorstep one rainy Christmas Eve and saddles Maggie with an autistic newborn child named Cody (Holliston Coleman).

Cody quickly touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new husband, Eric Stark (Rufus Sewell), 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 realises 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.

Persons of interest

Kim Basinger .... Maggie O'Connor
Jimmy Smits .... Agent John Travis
Holliston Coleman .... Cody O'Connor
Rufus Sewell .... Eric Stark
Angela Bettis .... Jenna O'Connor
Christina Ricci .... Cheri Post
Michael Gaston .... Detective Frank Bugatti
Lumi Cavazos .... Sister Rosa
Dimitra Arliss .... Dahnya
Eugene Lipinski .... Stuart
Anne Betancourt .... Maria
Ian Holm .... Reverend Grissom
Helen Stenborg .... Sister Joseph
Cathy Cash Spellman .... Author
Clifford Green .... Screenwriter
Ellen Green .... Screenwriter
Chuck Russell .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

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Studios and distributors:

Paramount Pictures

Intelligence analyst

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Theatrical report

Nowhere near as good as The irrefutable truth about demons, Bless the child is crap. It was made when mortgage repayments were due and work was thin. I won't waste any more of your bandwidth on this film.