Child Bride of Short Creek

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. The story follows fifteen-year-old Jessica Rae Jacobs (Diane Lane) and her friend Naomi (Helen Hunt), who grow up resigned to be victims of a patriarchal, Mormon, polygamist group of separatists in the 1950s West. Jessica secretly listens to the radio after school lessons one day,...