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Child Bride of Short Creek

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L1456
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Child Bride of Short Creek (1981)

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Child Bride of Short Creek is a 1981 TV movie written by Joyce Eliason and starring Diane Lane, Helen Hunt, Christopher Atkins, and Dee Wallace. The film is a dramatization of the lives of the people of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, United States, collectively known as "Short Creek," a community made up of members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a Mormon separatist group practicing child marriage and polygamy.

Originally made for television and based on a true story from the '50s, this film concerns a rural Arizona town that deals in polygamy. Specifically, a boy is shocked that his father (Christopher Atkins), a veteran of the Korean War, wishes to take a 15-year-old girl for another wife.

A dramatization of the true account of a fundamentalist sect in Arizona that practices polygamy, with returning Korean war veteran Christopher Atkins' rebellion against his father (Conrad Bain) when learning that he plans to increase his stable of wives by adding the 15-year-old girl (Diane Lane) with whom his son is romantically involved

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