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Old 04-03-2006, 07:44 PM
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Question films portraying adoption, adoptees, etc;

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/
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