Banking on Heaven
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Actor: 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:
- A Dot Reidelbach & Laurie Allen Film
- Deleted scenes with director's commentary
DVD Reviews of Banking on Heaven
DVD Review: Eye-opening documentary
Summary: 4 Stars
This 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?
I give the documentary one star less than perfect because the musical score is distracting and too much use is made of the same footage. (This is understandable, because it had to be filmed in secret, very quickly. CC/H is a dangerous place to be an outsider.) However, the message is so strong and so valuable that I'd still recommend the film to everybody in this country.
DVD Review: Compelling and disturbing
Summary: 4 Stars
Banking on Heaven
I have just watched Dot Reidelbach's and Laurie Allen's documentary on the FLDS sect in Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah with shock and outrage. I thought I had seen everything when I read Jon Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven" and Carolyn Jessop's "Escape", but they pale in comparison to the cruelty and abuse women right here in America are enduring at the hands of misguided and, in cases, perverted men.
Interviews with escapees, exiles, lost boys, women who have been victims of incest, who have lost their children and have endured tragedy at which we recoil in horror, makes this must viewing. Here you will discover abuse in the name of religion, elected officials turning their backs on these women's cries for help, the Mormon Church profiting from payoffs by the very well-heeled FLDS sect.
Film footage takes the viewer on a journey to northern Arizona where polygamist men live like potentates in houses worth millions, but whose wives and children lack the bare necessities of life and who are made to go on welfare at the taxpayers' expense. Here, young teenage boys are thrust out into the world to fend for themselves with only the clothes on their backs. Why? Because there are not enough young women to go around for the older men who have been taught they need a minimum of three wives to attain heaven.
Banking on Heaven reveals the corruption in the FLDS, a corruption that extends to a polygamous law enforcement and higher.
This film will anger you, disturb you, maybe make you cry, but it should be required viewing so more people can see a tragedy occurring right here in the United States.
DVD Review: WOW!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a crazy documentary. I cant believe this is happening in the US. Thank you seller for the quick shipment.DVD Review: Don't expect much
Summary: 2 Stars
I didn't really care for this video. I expected much more from the reviews and description.DVD Review: Telling the Truth
Summary: 4 Stars
Very good video exposing the truth about the FLDS. The material was stretched just a bit - could have been a few minutes shorter. Except for that - well done. This is not an issue about religious freedom but the abuse of children in general, the sexual abuse of girls and brain washing by a charismatic leader.
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