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      Blessed Child

      2019 1h 14m Documentary List
      91% 11 Reviews Tomatometer More than a decade after leaving the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church (the "Moonies"), through a trove of never before seen footage from within the church and extraordinary home videos of her family's upbringing alongside Reverend Moon and his disciples, filmmaker Cara Jones attempts to finally break free from the religious cult which dominated her childhood. BLESSED CHILD is one daughter's attempt to unpack the legacy of the decisions her parents made while challenging assumptions -- hers and ours -- about cults and family. Read More Read Less

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      Peter Sobczynski RogerEbert.com The film is a little too scattershot for its own good. Rated: 2/4 Jul 17, 2020 Full Review Chuck Bowen Slant Magazine Filmmaker Cara Jones offers a poignant testament to the baggage and insecurities hounding her own life. Rated: 2.5/4 Jul 14, 2020 Full Review Nick Schager The Daily Beast Captures the corrosiveness of mass group-think movements, which are frequently as successful at tearing people apart as they are at bringing them together. Jul 8, 2020 Full Review Phil Guie Film-Forward.com Curiously, there are holes in the protagonists' backstory that are never sufficiently filled in. Rated: 3/5 Jan 1, 2021 Full Review Pete Vonder Haar Houston Press Sure, the Unification Church is still run by tax-dodging frauds who exploit members for free labor and violently oppose homosexuality, but hey, baby steps right? Rated: 3/5 Sep 4, 2020 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com For some, the nuanced Blessed Child will seem a bit jarring. Rated: 3.5/4.0 Aug 30, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis More than a decade after leaving the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church (the "Moonies"), through a trove of never before seen footage from within the church and extraordinary home videos of her family's upbringing alongside Reverend Moon and his disciples, filmmaker Cara Jones attempts to finally break free from the religious cult which dominated her childhood. BLESSED CHILD is one daughter's attempt to unpack the legacy of the decisions her parents made while challenging assumptions -- hers and ours -- about cults and family.
      Director
      Cara Jones
      Producer
      Jim Butterworth, Daniel J. Chalfen
      Screenwriter
      Josh Alexander, Cara Jones
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jul 17, 2020
      Runtime
      1h 14m
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