Synopsis
An impressionable young man finds himself literally enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
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Cast
- Michael O'KeefeDanny "Joshua" Stetson
- Karen AllenRebecca / Amy
- Peter FondaKirklander
- James WoodsCharles Pratt
- Elizabeth AshleyDiana Stetson
- Brian DennehyKevin Stetson
- Ronnie ScribnerSean Stetson
- Pamela LudwigJane
- John DukakisAaron
- Lee MontgomeryWalter
Recommandations
- 75
The Associated Press
The solution is a bit pat and anticlimactic, but it is heartening to find a movie that concerns itself with real and present social issues. [21 Oct 1982] - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Woods is particularly good as the deprogrammer, conveying an air of moral tackiness that suggests the "cure" may be worse than the perceived disorder. - 60
Newsweek
Part satire, part love story and, in its lurid deprogramming scenes, pure horror story. Not everything jells, and one never fully believes the hero's transformation from skepticism to subservience. Yet Kotcheff has again delivered a compelling entertainment and one savvy enough to raise more questions than it answers. [25 Oct 1982, p.119] - 50
The New York Times
The shrill, melodramatic quality of the film's final sections, so unlike its calmly controlled beginning, suggests that no one connected with Split Image really knew which way this story was heading.
