Banking on Heaven
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Canada DVD detailsActor: Carolyn Jessop, Elaine Jeffs, Jon Krakauer, Ruth Cooke, Warren JeffsBrand: TNT MEDIA GROUP Composer: Laurie Allen Composer: Tim Tickner DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown) Format: NTSC Running Time: 80 minutes Published: 2007 DVD Release Date: 2007-08-07 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Over the Moon Productions Product features:
DVD Reviews of Banking on HeavenDVD Review: Eye-opening documentaryThis is an ongoing scandal that everyone in America should know about. Six women and two men tell their first-hand stories of life in Colorado City and Hildale, the twin towns in Arizona (pop. 10,000). There, for many generations, isolation, fundamentalist religion, polygamy, forced teen and pre-teen marriages, child and spousal rape and other abuse, inbreeding and birth defects (an estimated 80% of the community are descended from two men), ignorance, enforced poverty--even starvation--and welfare fraud have reigned supreme and unchallenged. Three government representatives and a journalist tell how frustrating it is to try to get a handle on the situation: Few or none in the community will speak against their abusers (no one is supposed to have contact with people from the outside), and the only successful convictions have been for welfare fraud. A crowd of "lost boys," kicked out of the community in their early teens and left on city streets to survive however they can, meet to share their experiences, encourage each other, and find informal "dads." Author and researcher Jon Krakauer vouches for their stories. The filmmaker, herself an escapee from the virtual prison of the twin towns, asks: America spends billions trying to free Afghani women from the grip of the Taliban. But, here are the American Taliban, right in Arizona. Who will come to the defense of these innocent people? Who will save the women and children of Colorado City and Hildale?
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