- Title: USA: KIM BASINGER AND RUFUS SEWELL STAR IN THRILLER "BLESS THIS CHILD"
- Date: 28th August 2000
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (REUTERS) SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) BASINGER SAYING: "Well, I think that this particular movie, and what I was drawn to is because it was about good and evil. And it's the kind of movie that warrants a good conversation to go after you see the movie. You go out and you continue talking about this movie. I hope that's what we did in bringing this ol
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- Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES/VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: USA
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: Oscar award winning actress Kim Basinger plays the aunt of a girl born underneath a holy star with the power to lead people to God in her latest film "Bless the Child."
Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Conner's (Kim Basinger) well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital -- that is, until her wayward kid sister, Jenna (Angela Bettis), shows up on her doorstep one rainy Christmas Eve and saddles Maggie with an autistic newborn child named Cody (Holliston Coleman).
Cody quickly touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later, Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new husband, Eric Stark (Rufus Sewell), abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis (Jimmy Smits), an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children.
The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply "special." She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child.
Kim Basinger who is 1998 received an Academy Award for her role in the critically acclaimed film "L.A. Confidential,"
said she was attracted the doing a film because as a kid she always liked"scary movies."
"I'd never done this genre of film and I've always loved scary movies. My dad and I have a history together of watching films when I was a kid. I have great memories. And these scary movies were the ones we loved the most. I'd never done it so it was kind of neat."
"Well, I think that this particular movie, and what I was drawn to is because it was about good and evil. And it's the kind of movie that warrants a good conversation to go after you see the movie. You go out and you continue talking about this movie. I hope that's what we did in bringing this old conversation about good and evil once again back to the table."
By her side, is British actor Ruful Sewel who says he was thrilled to be offered the role of Eric.
"You're an English actor you're often offered a bad guy role. You wear a trench coat and you say 'ah, welcome.' That's what you do -- often they're not very good parts. This one was a great part and it was in America. It made me feel flattered that it wasn't between me and a couple of English guys. It could have been anyone playing the part." - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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