Movies Relating To Adoption
(in one way or another)

This is a very new area under development, so please bear with us (no pun on our third review below)! In addition to the links to DVD's and VHS movies at Amazon we will also be adding specific reviews by our staff to those movies of particular significance to members of the adoption triad. If you do choose to order any of these movies at a substantial discount from Amazon you should know that Kinship Center and AFTER will receive 15% of your purchase to support our efforts. Thanks!

RECENT RELEASES: (updated Tuesday January 06, 2009)

White Oleander (R)
Premise:  White Oleander is one girl's dramatic coming-of-age story -- emphasis on the word "dramatic." A bright teen bounces around some dreadful foster homes, gets street-tough while in a facility for abandoned kids, and witnesses more tragedy in three years than any person should see in a lifetime. Deft direction and fine editorial choices make White Oleander an effective and well-paced story of self-realization and determination. Reviews are here. Video Preview is here

 Lovely and Amazing (R)
Premise: An ensemble comedy about a mother and her three daughters - a former homecoming queen, an aspiring actress, and an adopted 8-year-old preoccupied with her looks. Reviews can be found here, and cast list and credits here. Video previews are not available.

Country Bears
Premise: This is the story of a 10-year-old bear named Beary who is raised by humans (sort of Tarzan in reverse... with bears), unaware that he is adopted. Discovering the truth about his bear-itage, Beary sets out to Tennessee, to seek out his family and purpose in life. In the first weeks of its release it has offended many people from all triad perspectives, and has not generally impressed the critics either. Reviews can be found here, and video previews here.

Snow Dogs
Premise:  When Miami dentist Ted Brooks receives a court summons, he gets sent into a tailspin after learning that: 1) he's adopted; and 2) his birth mother recently died. As the principal benefactor of her simple Alaskan estate, Ted travels north to "find himself" and learn what he can about his birth parents. The film's assumptions about race are outdated and borderline offensive. Not only does Ted Brooks assume (wrongly) that the only other African-American man in small-town Alaska is his father, but when he finds out that his pa is a "white dude," both he and his adoptive mother nearly faint. Of course, says his mother, this explains your love of Michael Bolton music. Another questionable Disney entry from a triad perspective. Reviews can be found here, and video previews here.

Stuart Little 2
Premise: Nobody expected the first Stuart Little movie to be the kind of hit that it became. Maybe the odds makers underestimated how charming a talking mouse could be. Maybe they misunderstood the appeal of the candy-colored, storybook version of New York where the mouse lives. The mouse, with the voice of Michael J. Fox, is still charming. Now a full-fledged member of the Little household, Stuart does his best to be a regular kid, playing soccer and going to school (albeit in a toy car). Dad is understanding, brother George is kind, and Mom is overprotective, just like everybody else. Reviews can be found here, and video previews here.

MASTER MOVIE LISTING

A wise person, our colleague Gail at Kinship Center, recently remarked;
 "All G-rated movies are about loss and attachment. They are all adoption-related!".

Know of an adoption-related movie we're missing?
 Let us know here.
Movie
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101 Dalmations (Animated)
 on DVD
 on VHS
101 Dalmations (Disney)
 on DVD
 on VHS
102 Dalmations (Disney)
 on VHS
Anastasia
 on DVD
 on VHS
Anne of Green Gables
on VHS
Annie (new release)
 on DVD
 on VHS
Annie (original)
 on DVD
 on VHS
Author! Author!
on VHS
Babe
 on DVD
 on VHS
Bachelor Mother
on VHS
Batman Returns
 on DVD
 on VHS
Big Daddy
 on DVD
 on VHS
The Brady Bunch
on VHS
Captain January
on VHS
Cinderella
on VHS
Citizen Kane
 on DVD
 on VHS
The Color Purple
 on DVD
 on VHS
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
on VHS
Ever After
 on DVD
 on VHS
A Family Thing
 on DVD
 on VHS
A Family for Joe

Fanny and Alexander
on VHS
Flirting with Disaster
 on DVD
 on VHS
Good Will Hunting
 on DVD
 on VHS
Grand Canyon
 on DVD
 on VHS
Greystoke, Legend of Tarzan
on VHS
Hercules
 on DVD
 on VHS
Immediate Family
on VHS
It Takes Two
 on DVD
 on VHS
The Jungle Book
 on DVD
 on VHS
Les Miserables
 on DVD
 on VHS
A Little Princess
 on DVD
 on VHS
Losing Isaiah
on VHS
The Jerk
 on DVD
 on VHS
The Mask of Zorro
 on DVD
 on VHS
Mighty Aphrodite
 on DVD
 on VHS
Oliver
 on DVD
 on VHS
Oliver Twist
 on DVD
 on VHS
Paper Moon
on VHS
Paradise
on VHS
Penny Seranade
 on DVD
 on VHS
Peter Pan
 on DVD
 on VHS
Pollyanna
 on DVD
 on VHS
Prince of Egypt
 on DVD
 on VHS
Problem Child
 on DVD
 on VHS
Raising Arizona
 on DVD
 on VHS
Rent-a-Kid
on VHS
The Rescuers
on VHS
The Rescuers Down Under
 on DVD
 on VHS
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
 on DVD
 on VHS
Roots
 on DVD
 on VHS
Second Best
on VHS
The Secret of Roan Inish
 on DVD
 on VHS
Secrets and Lies
on VHS
Sleeping Beauty
on VHS
Star Wars 4: A New Hope (SE)
on VHS
Star Wars 5: The Empire Strikes Back (SE)
on VHS
Star Wars 6: Return of the Jedi (SE)
on VHS
Star Wars Episode I
 on DVD
 on VHS
Stepmom
 on DVD
 on VHS
Superman
 on DVD
 on VHS
Superman 2
 on DVD
 on VHS
Superman 3
 on DVD
 on VHS
Tarzan
 on DVD
 on VHS
Three Men and a Baby
 on DVD
 on VHS
Three Men and a Little Lady
 on DVD
 on VHS
The Tigger Movie
 on DVD
 on VHS
Trading Places
on VHS
Welcome Home, Roxy Charmichael
on VHS
Widow's Peak
on VHS
Yours, Mine, and Ours
 on DVD
 on VHS
Zorro
 on DVD
 on VHS
 


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