The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

What can we say about The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things? Well, Cole and Dylan Sprouse plays Jeremiah, a boy, who is taken from his foster parents to live with his drug-addicted, prostitute mother Sarah and along the way has, gets  , and at one point becomes a Christian!. A very squicky film to say the least.

Tropes Seen in The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things:

 * Abusive Parents: Sarah although she would have won a mother of the year award compared to the book
 * Department of Child Disservices
 * Diabolus Ex Machina: Nothing ever seems to go right.
 * From a Certain Point of View: Meta example. The film is based on an autobiographical novel by teenaged author JT LeRoy. Except that LeRoy turned out to be thirtysomething female Laura Albert.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: Marilyn Manson plays a heartwarming role as someone who
 * Winona Ryder plays a extremely incompetent child psychiatrist.
 * Peter Fonda plays Jeremiah's christian fundamentalist grandfather.
 * Nightmare Fuel: Lots
 * Nightmare Sequence: Several, usually featuring massive, clawing red birds
 * Squick: Ohhhh so much.
 * Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: Justified.