The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

Jeremiah was a happy child living with foster parents until he was 7 or 8 The movie starts with the cops taking him away to go back and live with his real mother. The Cliff's Notes is that she's bad news, he ends up abandoned in a hospital, his crazy Christian grandparents adopt him, his mom steals him back - but, as you've come to expect from Cliff's Notes, there's a lot more too it. It reminded me a little of Sherrybaby, but that messed up mom was trying to do what's right and this messed up mom is trying to do what's fun. She thinks her son is a burden (which is a little odd because she took him from his foster family) but has convinced him that she's the only one who will ever love him. He knows she's bad for him, but he seems to have accepted his place in life and the fact that he doesn't deserve anything better, and that only makes the movie more unsettling.