What films have you seen that have portrayed people within the adoption triangle? I'd be interested to review how adoption, search/reunion, adoptees, relinquishing parents, adoptive parents, are portrayed in the mass media.
For starters, here are the films that I'm aware of (so far I've seen all of them except numbers 1, 2 and 9):
1. The Child (L'Enfant) - (Cannes Film Fest winner: birth mother discovers boyfriend sold their baby on black market)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456396/
2. The King - (Official selection at Cannes Film Fest: revenge by adoptee on birth father)
http://www.jumpstreetfilms.com.au/king.html
3. The Official Story - (Academy Award winner: Argentinian adoptive mother who searches for the birth mother)
http://www.library.american.edu/subj.../official.html
4. High Tide - (Australian Film Institute winner: birth mother who finds daughter in trailer park)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095305/
5. The Daughter from Danang - (Sundance Film Festival winner: docco about reunion between Vietnamese born adoptee and her birth family)
http://www.daughterfromdanang.com/
6. Rat Race - (reunion between first mother and daughter, while not central to this comedy flick, the reunion is shown)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250687/
7. Broken Flowers - (Cannes Film Festival winner: birth father receives anonymous letter about his son and searches for him)
http://www.festival-cannes.fr/films/...d_film=4278008
8. First Person Plural - (San Francisco International Film Festival winner: docco about Korean-born adoptee who unites her biological and adoptive families)
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2000/firstpersonplural/
9. DMC: My Adoption Journey - (docco about famous hip-hop/rap musician who searches for his birth mother)
http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/vh1_roc...de_about.jhtml
10. Smoke Signals - (Sundance Film Fest winner: Native American man embarks on journey to collect the ashes of his father who'd abandoned him)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/alexie.html
11. Secrets and Lies - (Oscar-nominated film about African-British woman traces her birth mother to a lower-class Anglo-British woman who denies it)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117589/