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Jack of the Red Hearts

Jack of the Red Hearts

Drama · Family · 2016

A teenage con artist tricks a desperate mother into hiring her as a live-in companion for her autistic daughter.

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Jack of the Red Hearts

2016 Drama · Family 1h 42m

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7.1 / 10

Community rating

A teenage con artist tricks a desperate mother into hiring her as a live-in companion for her autistic daughter.

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What this film says about your taste.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Janet Grillo

Written by

Jennifer Deaton

AnnaSophia Robb

AnnaSophia Robb

Jack Ferguson

Famke Janssen

Famke Janssen

Kay Adams

Scott Cohen

Scott Cohen

Mark Adams

Taylor Richardson

Taylor Richardson

Glory Adams

Israel Broussard

Israel Broussard

Robert Adams

Sophia Anne Caruso

Sophia Anne Caruso

Bethany "Coke" Ferguson

John D'Leo

John D'Leo

Dudley

Court is in session

Put Jack of the Red Hearts on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Prestige Tourist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.