What movies are there about adoption?
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What movies are there about adoption?
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I am just interested in what movies are out there that have links to adoption, etiher negatively or postively.
I am asking because I just watched 10 Commandments (never looked at it through adoption eyes before) and Gone Baby Gone, which while not about adoption made me think of my foster children who have gone back to bad situations.
Anyway thought it might be fun to generate a list, be as creative as you want. (um, well we all know juno was about adoption, let's think outside the box)
Thanks!
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just thought of one more, Butterbox babies....creepy for sure, let's here more people!
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BPD Wife
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Meet the Robinsons (Disney Cartoon) - although I have heard mixed reviews about how it portrays adoption so I have not watched it yet.
I did a quick google search and found some of the following:
Snow Dogs
Elf
The Little Drummer Boy
Nester the Long Eared Donkey
I am Sam
A Family Thing
A Long Way Home
A Memory in My Heart
Angie
Big Daddy
Border Line
Deep In My Heart
Fortress
Gloria
The Handmaid's Tale
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
Losing Isaiah
Mommie Dearest
The Other Mother
Rite of Passage
Secrets and Lies
Storm of the Century
Sweet Evil
Tell Me My Name
Three Secrets
The Truman Show |
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furfur
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The movie "White Oleander" deals with the LA foster care system. I know it is not adoption, but I thought I would offer it up because it is related. |
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LaurieDB
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A historical one:
Stolen Babies about Georgia Tann.
http://movies.aol.com/movie/stolen-babies/1091870/synopsis
Inspired by a 60 Minutes story, the made-for-cable Stolen Babies is the fact-based story of supposed "angel of mercy" Georgia Tann. Throughout the 1940s, Ms. Tann oversaw the adoption of children from her Tennessee orphanage. Since she was considered a pillar of the community, few questioned Tann's methods. Only when dedicated social worker Anne Beals began chipping away at Tann's respectable veneer did a terrible truth come to light. The principal selling angle of Stolen Babies was the way-against-type casting of Mary Tyler Moore as purse-lipped, bespectacled, quietly sinister Georgia Tann (not surprisingly, Moore won an Emmy for this chilling performance). Lea Thompson was more traditionally cast as the whistle-blowing Anne Beals. Stolen Babies first aired March 25, 1993, over the Lifetime Cable service. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide |
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grapesgum
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Secrets and Lies and Breakfast on Pluto are my favorites. Neither were produced or filmed in the US (probably why I liked them!).
Both are about the quest of adopted adults to connect to their families of origin. |
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sunny
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Secrets & Lies, Mommie Dearest, The Magdalene Sisters
ETA: Just thought of another funny one--Flirting with Disaster! Here Mary Tyler Moore plays the amother. |
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KT
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Losing Isaiah |
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metfantb
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Angles in the Outfield, Stuart Little |
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fastpawsbengals
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Anne of GreenGables.. it's older but it's a great series.. :) |
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noreenandjohn01
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August Rush
Martian Child
Juno
Mommie Dearest
The Bad Seed
Snow Dogs (disney) |
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duckfish
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Problem Child |
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Working on a Full House
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I watched Meet the Robinsons with my daughter whom we adopted as a teenager and it really struck a chord for both of us.
Others we enjoy are Anne of Green Gables and my little daughter loves Annie. |
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De
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I can't think of any movies off hand other than Losing Isaiah which was a life time movie. But Mrs Spider Sunny Patch has an adoption theme to it as she took in other bugs. And if you think about it Jesus was adopted Joesph |
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*A<3girl
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Martian Child was sooooo good!!! |
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Angelina
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Twins!!! Classic! |
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Bowtie
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Mom at 15 |
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HappyMomAnna
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Martian Child.... reallly really good for anyone who has Fostered or Adopted an older child... |
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Tasha_x
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juno, a teenage girl ha a baby and puts it up for adoption |
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hauntedsnowfort™
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Juno
Funny, touching movie about a young girl who becomes pregnant and decides to give the baby to a married couple
It's in the theatres right now. |
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