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Losing Isaiah

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5.4
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Original title
Losing Isaiah
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Running time
108 min.
Country
United States United States
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Genre
Drama | Adoption
Synopsis
An African-American baby, abandoned by his crack addicted mother is adopted by a white social worker and her husband. Several years later, the baby's mother finds out her son is not dead, as she thought before and goes to court to get him back.
Critics' reviews
  • "The material is emotionally wrenching, but the actors play sociopolitical totems more than flesh-and-blood characters."
  • "This drama about interracial adoption is serious and affecting, thanks in large part to the presence of its two magnetic stars."
  • "This is an absorbing and involving picture, but the terms propounded here limit the story, which depends almost entirely on emotions rather than on thought."
  • "'Losing Isaiah' transcends the custody issue and finds drama in the black-white polarities that neither character can escape."
  • "Thought-provoking and dramatically-solid."
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User history
Losing Isaiah
1995
Stephen Gyllenhaal
5.4
(682)
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