Rating: R
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 02/13/2001
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 107 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
In this supernatural horror story, Jenna (
Angela Bettis), an unstable young woman, gives birth to a girl named Cody who proves to be autistic; unable to care for her properly, she turns Cody over to her sister, psychiatric nurse Maggie O'Connell (
Kim Basinger). Maggie raises Cody as her own, but when the child (now played by
Holliston Coleman) turns six, Jenna and her new husband Eric (
Rufus Sewell) forcibly take back the child. Maggie believes Jenna and Eric are not fit parents, but when she takes the matter up with detective John Travis (
Jimmy Smits), they discover that a number of children born on the same day as Cody have also been abducted recently. Even worse, it seems that Cody may now be in the hands of Satanists who, in accordance with Biblical prophecy, believe the little girl may be mankind's last line of defense against ultimate evil. Based on a novel by
Cathy Cash Spellman,
Bless the Child also stars
Christina Ricci and
Ian Holm.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
