Electrick Children is a 2012 American independent coming of age drama film written and directed by Rebecca Thomas in her directorial film debut and starring Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, and Liam Aiken. Garner plays Rachel, a 15-year-old girl from a fundamentalist Mormon community in Utah. After learning that she is pregnant, she believes she has conceived miraculously through listening to a song on a cassette tape.

Plot

After her fifteenth birthday, Rachel McKnight, a member of a fundamentalist Mormon community in Utah, listens to a cassette recorder for the first time and hears a cover of "Hanging on the Telephone" by The Nerves on a blue cassette. Her brother, Mr. Will, takes it from her, stating that it is to be used only for God's purposes. When she discovers she is pregnant, she is convinced that she has conceived miraculously, like the Virgin Mary, through the medium of the cassette. After being questioned by her parents, Mr. Will is blamed for impregnating her, and is asked to leave the community, while Rachel is told she will be married the next day. Rather than undergo a forced, unwanted, quick marriage arranged by her father, Paul, Rachel chooses to journey to Las Vegas, to find the unknown-father of the child she is carrying. Unbeknownst to her, Mr. Will is sleeping in the bed of the family's pickup truck when she steals it, and he inadvertently becomes her unwilling companion.