Child Bride of Short Creek (1981)

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

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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