Based on a True Story by JT LeRoy.
Features: DVD
From cult author JT LeRoy's best-selling novel The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, comes Asia Argento's bold cinematic adaptation of the controversial story of a mother and her son living hard and fast in the dark fringes of America.Amid allegations of Warholian-style literary hoaxes and identity scandals involving "JT LeRoy," The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, adapted from "JT's" second novel, comes to DVD June 6, 2006. Seven-year-old Jeremiah (Jimmy Bennett) lived a calm, comfortable life in the care of a loving foster home until the day his birth mother Sarah (Argento) suddenly showed up to reclaim him. Torn from the life he knew, Jeremiah is drawn into his mother's reckless world of turmoil and depravity, and a desperate struggle to survive the madness of his surroundings. JT LeRoy was elevated into national celebrity partly due to the overwhelming power of his unbelievable childhood experiences. Following the recent accusations by New York Magazine and The New York Times, which revealed the lengths one woman was willing to go to in order to gain entrance to the literary and celebrity world, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things reveals with colorful and uncompromising filmmaking, the back-story of one character who rocked the world of literature, fashion, music and film...without ever existing. This is the unfathomable story of "JT LeRoy."
"The Heart Is Deceitful has a daring that's hard to dismiss..." Noel Murray, The Onion A.V. Club
"Asia Argento's performance is fearless. " The Village Voice
"Like LeRoy's writing, it's intense, feverish stuff...illuminated by flashes of emotional insight." Uncut Magazine
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS MARCH 10, 2006 Based on JT Leroy's novel, this film traces the sordid life of the son of a truckstop prostitute named Sarah, who engages the boy in prostitution himself.
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