Child Bride of Short Creek
– Partially based on the true events surrounding a rural religious cult in the American Midwest, and h..
Release Date:
07 Dec 1981
Language:
English
Director:
Robert Michael Lewis
Writer:
Joyce Eliason, Michael Fessier Jr. (story "Jessica's Story")
Main Actors:
Diane Lane, Christopher Atkins, Conrad Bain, Kiel Martin
Plot:
Dramatization of the lives of the people of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, collectively known as "Short Creek," a community made up of members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, a Mormon separatist group practicing child marriage and polygamy.
Production:
Lawrence Schiller Productions
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