The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things poster
Screenplay Asia Argento
Director Asia Argento
Writer Alessandro Magania

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Drama2004

Tagline: Behind the greatest hoax of our time is the heartbreaking story that started it all.

Release Date: 2004-09-15

Duration: 98 minutes

Synopsis

Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.

Casting

  • Winona Ryder
    Psychologist
  • Cole Sprouse
    Older Jeremiah
  • Dylan Sprouse
    Older Jeremiah
  • Jeremy Renner
    Emerson
  • Ornella Muti
    Grandmother
  • Asia Argento
    Sarah
  • Jeremy Sisto
    Chester
  • Michael Pitt
    Buddy
  • Ben Foster
    Fleshy Boy
  • Matt Schulze
    Kenny