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Here's an excerpt from IMDB: "An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency."

Nominated for and won several awards including Golden Globe and BAFTA. Also stars Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett.

[idahonurse]

I agree with Star Trek (2009)! I totally bawled at the beginning. And we just got done watching Benjamin Button and I also got pretty teary!

There was one movie on Lifetime with Stephen Dorff and the biological mother was Patty Duke. It was called, "Always Remember I Love You". . . he was kidnapped and raised by another family. The adopted family discovers to their horror that he had been kidnapped. He runs away and finds his bio-fam and gets close to them without disclosing his identity. In the end, he tells them who he is and goes to live with Patty Duke and his biological family but keeps close ties with his adopted fam.

And there was another one more recently where a family friend intentionally started a fire during a party in the baby's room and took the baby leading the bio-fam to believe that the infant had been incinerated. Only, the bio-mom would not accept that and believed that her daughter still lived. Everyone called her crazy, even her husband. Several years down the line, she saw this family friend with a little girl and she KNEW that this was her daughter. The family friend was arrested for kidnapping and arson and the girl was reunited with the bio-fam. Can't find the name of this movie though.

Also, "Family of Strangers" with Patty Duke and Melissa Gilbert. Discovery of adoption and that the conception was by rape.

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An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who write letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, in search for the father he never knew.

Won the Best Foreign Film award in the Golden Globes.
Central do Brasil

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An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, in search for the father he never knew.

Won the Best Foreign Film award in the 1999 Golden Globes.
Central do Brasil

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A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.

A comedy starring Adam Sandler. Won the 2000 People's Choice Awards, USA, for Favorite Comedy Motion Picture.

[millie58]

Like Mike: it's old. Bow Wow and Morris Chestnut are in it. Bow Wow is in an orphanage. Morris Chestnut is a professional basketball player who ends up adopting bow wow and his friend.

I just saw Antoine fisher and I cried at the end, where the father's family welcomes him!!! And if I saw that foster mother, I would horse whip her!! Also saw Losing Isaiah.

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Bruno, the protagonist, adopts an African child in exchange for an iPod - another ploy in the filmmaker's in-your-face approach to generate controversial comedy. Not my type of film, but I can understand why some people find the film hilarious while others find it down right objectionable.

[Drywall]

Theres a movie from the '70's about the orphans shipped out west to find adopted families. Its called, "Orphan Train." It shows how kids were lined up on railway platforms and inspected b4 they were accepted for adoption by the families. The trains operated from approx 1855 to 1929.

[Josh5339]

'G-Force' is actually a GREAT adoption movie. The pet store that they're all in is a representation of an orphanage. The characters find out towards the middle of the film that they're not genetically engineered (biological) and instead came from pet shops and other places (orphanages). I really related to Darwin who was disowned by his parents because he was the runt of the litter, he always wanted to believe that he was special and genetically engineered and the realization that he isn't really disturbs everything he thinks to hold true - afterwards he discovers that family is the friends we have and our rescuers (adoptive parents) because they're the ones who wanted them and helped them grow into the heroes they are today.

Overall it's a great film with a family friendly message about adoption. It's Disney, we're disney characters from the get go. It's a great family and adoptee film.

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Originally Posted by UnconventionalMom

I LOVE this movie though certain parts make me, at age 32, cry like a baby. It was HEAVILY adapted from a children's book by the director who is an adoptee. I could tell that, even before I watched the Director's comments bonus material.

Meet The Robinsons was aired on free-to-air TV here in Australia last night and I thought it was well done. I can understand how adoptive parents would feel offended by the suggestion that they're rejecting the main character - but when you're an orphan who keeps getting turned down after an interview (124+ times), that's what it feels like. Some very good dialogue about the main character's feelings about being relinquished, desire to search for his b-mom, etc; At one point, the main character says to his friend, something like, "you don't know what I've lived through".