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Losing Isaiah (1995)
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Jessica Lange is a social worker who falls for an abandoned newborn and breaks all the rules by bringing him home. Halle Berry is the homeless druggie who dumped the baby. One of the film's best attributes is that it reveals everyone's perspective, though much of the story is told from Berry's point of view. Strung out on crack, Berry's character thinks nothing of hiding her baby in a cardboard box near a dumpster before going off for a fix. We watch Berry painfully pull herself up out of the gutter and make a life for herself. She embraces decency and sobriety and becomes the person she might have always been had her childhood been...
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Losing Isaiah Movie Review by Zara  (1/24/2007) |
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When this movie was first released, I wasn't yet a mother. Every emotion that I felt was from the perspective as a daughter, trying to imagine myself in a position where someone could come in and take away from me the only mother that I'd known. It was a frightening prospect, even just envisioning myself where I might have...
(complete Losing Isaiah review by Zara)
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