Underplayed Gems

Child Bride of Short Creek (1981)

Child Bride of Short Creek poster
Directed by
Robert Michael Lewis
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A teenage girl lives in a polygamous religious community where girls are married off young. She faces pressure to accept an arranged marriage with an older man as the authorities prepare to raid the town.

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What happens

Child Bride of Short Creek is a 1981 American made-for-television drama film written by Joyce Eliason, starring Christopher Atkins, Diane Lane, Conrad Bain, Helen Hunt and Dee Wallace. The film is a dramatization loosely based upon the 1953 Short Creek raid that had occurred in Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, United States, collectively known as "Short Creek," a community of members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a group that practices child marriage and polygamy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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