A town where 15-year-old girls become sister-wives and nobody blinks.
“Keep Sweet” concerns the conflicts in two towns on opposite sides of a state line. The area of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., was settled by members of a breakaway faction of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that continued to practice polygamy after the church had banned it.
Direction
Argott lets survivors speak without exploitation.
Editing
Juxtaposes cult PR footage against survivor testimony.
Director
Don Argott
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Keep Sweet' command was literal doctrine—women were instructed to suppress all negative emotion to please their husbands.
Hildale and Colorado City were nicknamed 'Short Creek'—the 1953 raid there actually strengthened FLDS resolve by creating persecution mythology.
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