Devil's Playground (2002 film)

This article is about the 2002 documentary film. For other films by this title, see Devil's Playground (disambiguation).
Devil's Playground
Red-tinted DVD cover with the film title featuring a girl in white Amish-style bonnet and dark plain dress, seated in the back seat of a car, lighting a cigarette.
DVD Cover
Directed byLucy Walker
Produced bySteven Cantor
Starring
  • Velda Bontrager
  • Joann Hochstetler
  • Emma Miller
  • Faron Yoder
  • Gerald Yutzy
Production
company
Stick Figure Productions
Distributed byCinemax
Release date
Running time
77 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Devil's Playground is a 2002 American documentary film directed by Lucy Walker about the experiences of several Amish youths who decide whether to remain in or leave their community and faith during the period known as rumspringa ("running around" in Pennsylvania Dutch). The film follows a few Amish teenagers in LaGrange County, Indiana who enter the "English" (non-Amish) world and experience partying, drinking, illegal drugs, and pre-marital sex. Some teens in the film profess that they will eventually become baptized as adults in the Amish community. If they are baptized, then leave the church, they will be shunned by family and friends; one girl recounts her experience of this.

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