Split Image

1982

Action / Drama / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 73% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 73%
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 1313 1.3K

Plot summary

An impressionable young man finds himself enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.

Director

Ted Kotcheff Photo
Ted Kotcheff

Top cast

Brian Henson Photo
Brian Henson as Jerry
Karen Allen Photo
Karen Allen as Rebecca / Amy
Lee Montgomery Photo
Lee Montgomery as Walter
Pamela Ludwig Photo
Pamela Ludwig as Jane
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1 hr 51 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jonathan-747-46162 6 / 10

"Ticket to Heaven" is better

Sorry, but "Ticket to Heaven" (released the same year) is a much better film about the same subject. While it's an important one, "Split Image" treats it a bit lazily, as another reviewer here pointed out, especially the deprogramming, which is seriously amateurishily done and probably wouldn't have worked in real life.Moreover, the script gets itself entangled into a touch of reasoning about the duality of humankind - not too subtly, with Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde in the first act and all, but doesn't do that very well. It just becomes a distracting half-baked idea.To cover up the poor writing, a lot of special effects, music, and violent action are being used, but that cannot conceal the shortcomings of this movie. Compare that with how "Ticket to Heaven" avoids all that completely and becomes much more powerful for it.Still. I'd rather have you watch this movie than none at all about cults, since the timeless issues of mind control and mankind's yearning to avoid thinking for themselves sadly are as up to date today as they were then.
Reviewed by bgaiv 7 / 10

A bit creepy after watching Midsommar-- a mixed bag

I just saw this for the first time and it was very striking how similar the cult seemed to the one in Midsommar. Perhaps these depictions are common cult tropes, or perhaps this obscure film had more impact than one would expect.This movie starts off pretty strong but stumbles in the third act in multiple ways.James Woods' character is pretty funny and perhaps it's worth watching the film just to see it. But this character seems to not belong to this movie's really.The deprogramming scenes-- well, they're very interesting, but I'm left wondering how realistically depicted this is. My gut feeling is it's only very slightly based on real deprogrammings.The film is severely marred by the Holywood Ending, where the two main brainwashed kids run away from the cult hand in hand, and conveniently, despite extraordinary earlier efforts by the cult to recapture the boy, suddenly the cult doesn't seem to care. It's a record scratching moment.Also, before that, and by themselves, that boy and girl discuss their old names and lives before joining the cult. This is extremely problematic, because it makes it look like they aren't "brainwashed" at all, and are perfectly aware of what they are doing. And if they are, then they are adults making decisions, and the later capture and deprogramming of the boy is, in fact, kidnapping and torture. It also means he shouldn't have had hallucinations during "deprogramming."
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