Rachel is a rambunctious teenager from a fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah. On Rachel's 15th birthday, she discovers a forbidden cassette tape with rock music on it. Having never heard anything like it, Rachel has a miraculous experience. Three months later, Rachel turns up pregnant and claims to have had an immaculate conception from listening to the music. Rachel's parents arrange a marriage for Rachel, but Rachel runs away to the closest city, Las Vegas, to search for the man who sings on the cassette tape, thinking he has something to do with her mysterious pregnancy...
Cast
Production
| Director: | Rebecca Thomas |
| Producer: | Jessica Caldwell (producer) |
| Alejandro De Leon (co-producer) | |
| Michael M. McGuire (associate producer) | |
| Richard Neustadter (producer) | |
| Writer: | Rebecca Thomas (writer) |
Reviews for Electrick Children
Film4
Electrick Children is an adolescent film, and I mean that as absolutely the highest of praise. Taken as a whole, it has an extraordinarily unselfconscious natural grace, but that poise is only ever a heartbeat's excessive scrutiny away from dissolving...
Slant Magazine
Electrick Children has a hushed, pregnant urgency. In the eerie opening moments we're introduced to Rachel (a superb Julia Garner), a 15-year-old Mormon living in the Utah wilderness on a commune so remote that it takes a few minutes to place the film...
Read review4 Mar 2013
Little White Lies
In the opening scene of Rebecca Thomas’s superficially enjoyable if problematic debut indie-feature. Electrick Children, 15-year-old Rachel (Julia Garner) is being interviewed by her father, the head of their Mormon community, using a cassette deck...
Read review12 Jul 2012
TotalFilm.com
Careful, kids – rock’n’roll can get you pregnant. Or that’s what one Mormon teen believes in this cute lo-fi indie from first-timer Rebecca Thomas.
Read review2 Jul 2012
Time Out London
This is an intriguing if uneven US indie from a first-time filmmaker whose strong grasp of character and eye for visual composition could herald impressive things to come. Inspired by writer-director Rebecca Thomas’s own childhood in a Mormon community...
External Links
| www.electrickchildren.com | |
| IMDb.com, Inc.: | www.imdb.com/title/tt2139843/ |
| Rotten Tomatoes: | www.rottentomatoes.com/m/electrick_children/ |
Reviews for Electrick Children
Film4
Electrick Children is an adolescent film, and I mean that as absolutely the highest of praise. Taken as a whole, it has an extraordinarily unselfconscious natural grace, but that poise is only ever a heartbeat's excessive scrutiny away from dissolving...
Slant Magazine
Electrick Children has a hushed, pregnant urgency. In the eerie opening moments we're introduced to Rachel (a superb Julia Garner), a 15-year-old Mormon living in the Utah wilderness on a commune so remote that it takes a few minutes to place the film...
Read review4 Mar 2013
Little White Lies
In the opening scene of Rebecca Thomas’s superficially enjoyable if problematic debut indie-feature. Electrick Children, 15-year-old Rachel (Julia Garner) is being interviewed by her father, the head of their Mormon community, using a cassette deck...
Read review12 Jul 2012
TotalFilm.com
Careful, kids – rock’n’roll can get you pregnant. Or that’s what one Mormon teen believes in this cute lo-fi indie from first-timer Rebecca Thomas.
Read review2 Jul 2012
Time Out London
This is an intriguing if uneven US indie from a first-time filmmaker whose strong grasp of character and eye for visual composition could herald impressive things to come. Inspired by writer-director Rebecca Thomas’s own childhood in a Mormon community...
The Guardian UK
The strain of new naive cinema can be so stuffed with quirks, so determinedly guileless that it starts fraying the nerves as well as the seams. But Rebecca Thomas's gauzy debut about a 15-year-old Mormon who believes she's had an immaculate conception...
Read review12 Jul 2012
Cast
| Julia Garner | ... | Rachel |
| Rory Culkin | ... | Clyde |
| Liam Aiken | ... | Mr. Will |
| Bill Sage | ... | Tim |
| Cynthia Watros | ... | Gay Lynn |
| Billy Zane | ... | Paul |
 | John Patrick Amedori | ... | Johnny |
| Rachel Pirard | ... | Sara |
| Cassidy Gard | ... | Snow |
| Paola Baldion | ... | Lola |
| Guy Camilleri | ... | Kyle |
| Vincent J. DiGiorgio | ... | Johnny Cash | |
 | Ben Fritz | ... | Officer Fritz |
| Les Halstead | ... | Arrested man | |
| Amber Henrie | ... | Casey | |
| Daniel Love | ... | Arranged Marriage Scene Extra | |
| Melissa Nearman | ... | Janice | |
| Cherry Vercher | ... | Punk Rocker |
Production
| Director: | Rebecca Thomas |
| Producer: | Jessica Caldwell (producer) |
| Alejandro De Leon (co-producer) | |
| Michael M. McGuire (associate producer) | |
| Richard Neustadter (producer) | |
| Writer: | Rebecca Thomas (writer) |
| Composer: | Eric Colvin |
| Cinematographer: | Mattias Troelstrup |
| Editing: | Jennifer Lilly |
| Casting: | Adrienne Stern |
| Production Design: | Elizabeth Van Dam |
| Costume Design: | Stacey Berman |
| Makeup: | Tina Cohen (key hair stylist) |
| Heather Ford (makeup department head) | |
| Katie Machaiek (makeup artist) | |
| Allie Newman (key makeup artist) | |
| Production Management: | Alejandro De Leon (unit production manager) |
| Andrew Hauser (post-production supervisor) | |
| Michael M. McGuire (unit production manager) |
Companies
| Production Studio: | Live Wire Films |
| Distributor: | Phase 4 Films |
| United Kingdom | 13 Jul 2012 | |
| Russian Federation | 26 Jul 2012 | |
| Ireland | 27 Jul 2012 | |
| Germany | 10 Feb 2012 | |
| United States | 12 Oct 2012 | |
| Argentina | 13 Apr 2012 | |
| Poland | 1 Aug 2012 | |
| France | 2 Sep 2012 | |
| Hungary | 15 Sep 2012 | |
| New Zealand | 8 Nov 2012 | |
| Australia | 22 Nov 2012 | |
 | Luxembourg | 28 Feb 2013 |
