BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

goldstje I find it interesting that so many reviewers mistakingly describe the Lang character as the "foster parent"-she actually adopts him years before the birth mom returns for him. From a legal/social work perspective, this movie is in outer space. Which may be great for melodrama, but does a disservice to the thousand of children in this country who are available for adoption and languishing in foster care. The film is irresponsible, because it reinforces common misperceptions about adoption and encourages the deepest fears of those who might consider adopting. Every state has a statute of limitations for appealing termination of parental rights prior to adoption. Birth parents cannot return to the scene years after an adoption has been finalized to contest the validity of the termination of their parental rights. The race-based position of the bio mom's lawyer, whatever its merits from a moral perspective, would never make it into court. There is federal law against this. As other reviewers have noted, foster parenting is a different story and there is typically a strong push in favor of reunification with the biological parent before rights are terminated.

silversurfer_umit Firstly this movie could see like a boring drama but it's not. Why ? Because it involves you. The subject is very good and acting is very realistic and impressive especially the white mother's.You can see and understand the love between a mother and son in this movie. ALLAH (The God) created a very powerful instinct inside mothers' hearts. I saw this instinct in this movie so I really liked and affected me much.This movie can make you cry, don't go after fake love with selfish people, love is very near of you : devoted and faithful mothers of us and their love to children but never forget only the true love is for and from ALLAH.

makukhany All of yo all who still think miss berry is not a great actress hell see this film she gives a stunning performance and Jessica Lange as you would expect is wonderful its about a black woman who leaves her son in a garbage bin one day while she was high.The child ens up with a white woman and family after some years she finds her son and rest is..well courtroom drama THE story is a bit unbelievable but the acting is what makes it so inganging and oh Samuel L Jackson is also in the movie,it is all heartbreaking at times.But it remains objective not favouring either parties but showing both their views and points which is why you can't choose who has a better point

asc85 I really had no interest in seeing this picture, but I actually had a friend who was in a similar situation. Specifically, she adopted a bi-racial boy, and right before the adoption was "official," the birth father came out of the woodwork with HIS mother saying that they wanted to have him back. Originally, he denied paternity, so he never signed off on the adoption. She kept her adopted boy at the end, but my heart went out to her at the time. The plot of "Losing Isaiah" is of course a little bit different, but it deals with the same emotional issue of having a child that you are raising ripped away from you to be with the biological parent. This of course raises lots of interesting questions, such as, "what defines being a parent?" So because of my own personal experiences, I found the movie very moving and upsetting and I cried at the very end. So I guess the film "worked" for me. That being said, I'm not sure this situation could ever happen in real life. In real life, would Halle Berry's character EVER have had a chance of finding her baby years after she abandoned him in a crack-induced haze? Seems pretty doubtful to me.