There’s no point in giving an introduction about child adoption and foster parenting, so I’d rather not. We come across several times in movies where the adopted child discovers the fact as a plot twist. Sometimes, we know it, the character doesn’t and vice versa. And of course, mos...
Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne star in this heartwarming and hilarious comedy based on the true story of a couple who adopt three siblings from foster care. As they navigate the ups and downs of parenthood, their love and devotion to their new family grow stronger. Instant Family not only exp...
When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child, but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15-year-old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight. Now, Pete...
How Does This Connect to Adoption and Foster Care? Like many children who enter foster care, Agnes was moved from home to home. She was abused by a foster father, but her story was not believed by those in charge of her case. It reminds me, as a professional, of the importance of ...
She’s in recovery and is working to clean up her life in order to get her children out of foster care and make way for a new baby she’s due to deliver any day. As she struggles to find work and hold onto her housing, Gia must confront the possibility that perhaps her baby would...
especially kids who’ve lost familial connections through foster care or adoption; kids in that situation often do struggle with unjustified self-blame, and they could leave this film feeling as they’ve got something else to feel guilty about. Parents need to guard against this, and the best...
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dressed in plaid tracksuits that must have cost a lot more than they look, are called "The Toddlers." And they wouldn't put the scare into the hero of a YA novel. Among them is real-life rapper Bugzy Malone, who, let the record show, took his stage name from a movie about kid ...
Gia, a pregnant single mother in the Bay Area, seeks to recover her two children from foster care. The close-up is director Savanah Leaf’s flex. She uses the shot with a confident abundance that few contemporaries dare. On each character, she moves in close, like a friend at a party...
happening around her. But her husband (Preston Foster, also inThe Informer), has other ideas. Ford regulars Barry Fitzgerald and Arthur Shields are there in support, as are Una O’Connor and Cyril McLaglen, Victor’s younger brother. The film’s climax, of course, is the 1916 Easter ...