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Plot Summary
Award winning filmmaker, Ondi Timoner, follows four families as they leave an abusive church in South Carolina and realize they have been in a cult. The film documents them as they enter Wellspring, the only accredited, live-in cult treatment facility in the world, where they learn the true extent of the brainwashing they have all experienced. Eventually they return home to bring the Pastor and his wife to justice and try to begin to rebuild their damaged lives.
Customer Reviews
Spellbinding and heartbreaking. Excellent documentary.
Timoner provides an honest and captivating look into the lives of families destroyed by a cult. At moments uplifting and others devastatingly painful, this haunting documentary left me speechless. The director leaves the camera rolling in moments when I expected him to stop, intervene, or comfort. Immersed as both a witness and participant, the narrator / camerman pulled me in to a world I never knew existed. A must see.
Great Film
After Ondi came to talk to our school i was intrigued by this film in perticular and i must say its amazing and chilling at the same time overall fanastic in my opinion
Very interesting and eye-opening
The film was well-organized and so interesting. It showed the recovery of the members of a small, abusive Christian cult after they realized they were being controlled. I would have liked a little more detail, but what is sacrificed in unanswered questions is made up for in the filmmakers' thoroughness -- interviews and camera time are given to the cult leaders as well.
Not life-changing, but definitely worth the rental.
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