Banking on Heaven
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Actor: Carolyn Jessop, Elaine Jeffs, Jon Krakauer, Ruth Cooke, Warren JeffsBrand: TNT MEDIA GROUP
Composer: Laurie Allen
Composer: Tim Tickner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 80 minutes
Published: 2007
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Over the Moon Productions
Product features:
- A Dot Reidelbach & Laurie Allen Film
- Deleted scenes with director's commentary
Movie Reviews of Banking on Heaven
Movie Review: Eye-opening documentary
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an ongoing scandal that everyone in America should know about. Six women and two men tell their first-hand stories of life in Colorado City and Hildale, the twin towns in Arizona (pop. 10,000). There, for many generations, isolation, fundamentalist religion, polygamy, forced teen and pre-teen marriages, child and spousal rape and other abuse, inbreeding and birth defects (an estimated 80% of the community are descended from two men), ignorance, enforced poverty--even starvation--and welfare fraud have reigned supreme and unchallenged. Three government representatives and a journalist tell how frustrating it is to try to get a handle on the situation: Few or none in the community will speak against their abusers (no one is supposed to have contact with people from the outside), and the only successful convictions have been for welfare fraud. A crowd of "lost boys," kicked out of the community in their early teens and left on city streets to survive however they can, meet to share their experiences, encourage each other, and find informal "dads." Author and researcher Jon Krakauer vouches for their stories. The filmmaker, herself an escapee from the virtual prison of the twin towns, asks: America spends billions trying to free Afghani women from the grip of the Taliban. But, here are the American Taliban, right in Arizona. Who will come to the defense of these innocent people? Who will save the women and children of Colorado City and Hildale?
I give the documentary one star less than perfect because the musical score is distracting and too much use is made of the same footage. (This is understandable, because it had to be filmed in secret, very quickly. CC/H is a dangerous place to be an outsider.) However, the message is so strong and so valuable that I'd still recommend the film to everybody in this country.
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