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Bless the Child
MEANRANK
40/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 4, highest is Kinopoisk on 62. Critics average 10, everyone else 50.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she 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, abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently murdered children.
Details
- Director
- Chuck Russell
- Writers
- Clifford Green, Ellen Green, Thomas Rickman
- Released
- 11 August 2000
- Country
- United States, Germany, Canada
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $40.0M
- Box office
- $40.4M
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