Electrick children
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If you’re having trouble telling the difference between hipsters and fundamentalist Mormons, then this is the film for you. This indie creeper is a refreshingly honest coming-of-age tale about a young girl who escapes a shotgun Mormon marriage after falling pregnant to a song. That’s right, a song. Take a journey from the epic landscapes of Utah to the neon lights of Las Vegas, and challenge your pre- (and immaculate) conceptions.
“ I was doing some documentary work on fundamentalist Mormonism and saw that girls often ran away and boys are often kicked out…From a very young age they are expelled from their communities and that is where the initial idea came from. ”
