Bless the Child is a 2000 supernatural thriller film directed by Chuck Russell, starring Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Angela Bettis, Rufus Sewell, Christina Ricci, and Holliston Coleman. It is based on the novel of the same name by Cathy Cash Spellman. Maggie O'Connor's life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn autistic daughter, Cody, at her home. Maggie takes Cody in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later, Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric , and abducts... Cody . Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis , an expert in ritual murder and occult-related crime, takes up her case when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. Cody, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply "special.
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| Release date: | August 11, 2000 |
| Directed by: | Chuck Russell |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 107 Minutes |
| Producer: | Mace Neufeld |
| Editor: | Alan Heim |
| Screenplay by: | Thomas Rickman, Clifford Green, Ellen Green |
| Estimated budget: | $40,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Bless the Child |
| Genre: | Thriller |