Bless the Child

Bless the Child (2000)

Mankind's last hope just turned six.

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.

Date of release
2000-08-11
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (326)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Drama, Horror, Thriller, Crime
Director
Chuck Russell

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Toronto

Bless the Child is a 2000 American supernatural horror film directed by Chuck Russell, and starring Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Angela Bettis, Rufus Sewell, Christina Ricci, and Holliston Coleman. Based on the 1993 novel by Cathy Cash Spellman, it follows a woman who discovers that her niece, whom she has adopted, is being sought by a Satanic cult seeking to use her supernatural abilities. The film is a co-production between the United States, Canada and Germany.

Production

Filming took place in the summer and fall of 1999 in Toronto, Ontario, which doubled for the film's New York City setting.

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