Child Bride of Short Creek
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Child Bride of Short Creek Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via Amazon Prime Video

Child Bride of Short Creek is a 1981 drama movie that looks into the harsh realities of child marriage and polygamy within a secluded religious community. It tells the story of a teenage girl, Jessie, pressured into marrying an older man while wanting a different life outside of the cult.

Here’s how you can watch and stream Child Bride of Short Creek via streaming services such as Amazon Prime Video.

Is Child Bride of Short Creek available to watch via streaming?

Yes, Child Bride of Short Creek is available to watch via streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

In the movie, protagonist Jessie longs to escape her community’s restricting rules and traditions. The film looks at the struggles of child brides and the hardships of life in a religious cult, while following a young woman’s brave fight for freedom.

The cast features Christopher Atkins as a Korean War veteran and Diane Lane as his girlfriend, Jessica Rae Jacobs. They find themselves against Christopher’s polygamist father, Frank King, played by Conrad Bain.

Watch Child Bride of Short Creek streaming via Amazon Prime Video

Child Bride of Short Creek is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video.

The streaming service is available as a standalone membership and also as part of an Amazon Prime membership. Subscribers get access to a huge library of TV series, movies and original content.

You can watch via Amazon Prime Video by following these steps:

  1. Go to Amazon Prime Video
  2. Select ‘Sign in’ and ‘Create your Amazon account’
  3. Sign up for a Prime Video membership:
    • $14.99 per month or $139 per year with an Amazon Prime membership
    • $8.99 per month for a standalone Prime Video membership

Amazon Prime is the online retailer’s paid service that provides fast shipping and exclusive sales on products, so the membership that includes both this service and Prime Video is the company’s most popular offering. However, you can also opt to subscribe to Prime Video separately.

Child Bride of Short Creek’s official synopsis is as follows:

“A dramatization of the true account of a fundamentalist sect in Arizona that practices polygamy, and a returning Korean War veteran’s rebellion against his father when he learns that the latter plans to increase his stable of wives by adding the 15-year-old girl with whom his son is romantically involved.”

NOTE: The streaming services listed above are subject to change. The information provided was correct at the time of writing.

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