Electrick Children (2012)

Name: Electrick Children
Director: Rebecca Thomas
Genre: Drama
Released: 2012-07-11
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Cast: Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aiken, Bill Sage

Drama

Director: Rebecca Thomas

Cast: Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aiken, Bill Sage

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88%

Runtime95 min

Rating15

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Rachel is a rambunctious girl from a polygamist colony in southern Utah. On Rachel’s 15th birthday, she finds a forbidden cassette tape. Having never seen anything like it before, Rachel plays the cassette tape, and finds glorious rock & roll thereupon. Weeks later, Rachel realizes a miracle has occurred - and the cassette tape must have something to do with it. She leaves her family and runs away to the closest city: Las Vegas. There she searches for the singer of the band on the cassette tape.

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Fans of director Rebecca Thomas' unique visual style and unconventional storytelling will be captivated by this offbeat 2012 drama starring Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, and Liam Aiken. The film blends coming-of-age, religious, and rock & roll themes in an intriguing exploration of self-discovery.

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Electrick Children is a 2012 American independent coming of age drama film written and directed by Rebecca Thomas in her directorial film debut and starring Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, and Liam Aiken. Garner plays Rachel, a 15-year-old girl from a fundamentalist Mormon community in Utah. After learning that she is pregnant, she believes she has conceived miraculously through listening to a song on a cassette tape.