The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

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  Directed by:  Asia Argento Released: 2024 (educational) Year of Production: 2004 Running Time: 97 min Language: English, Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects:  Narrative Fiction                Steeped in controversy, unflinching, unforgettable... Asia Argento’s adaptation of J.T. Leroy’s best selling novel The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things is a searing exploration of trauma and survival in the underside of America’s heartland. Headlining one of the most intriguing casts of the 2000s, which includes Peter Fonda, Ornella Muti, Jeremy Renner, Lydia Lunch, Ben Foster, and Winona Ryder, Argento stars as Sarah, a woman who rips her son (played at various points by Jimmy Bennett, Dylan, and Cole Sprouse) out of foster care and throws him into her transient life as a sex worker at truck stops.  Leroy was later revealed to be a fabrication of author Laura Albert and her sibling-in-law Savannah Knoop, a story that broke the year after THE HEART IS DECEITFUL A

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