Mira Sorvino, Barry Pepper
Very fine film about a complicated adoption conflict which could have been ripped from the docket of any family court in the country. Top-notch performances by all hands...but especially the two leads...raised this above the routine domestic melodrama.
Pro-life folks toss out adoption as an easy alternative to abortion but the reality and the ramifications of it are profound and long-lasting. This story also featured class issues (see The Babydance) but the focus throughout was the personal toll...the filmmakers succeeded in getting us to care about the fate of these people caught in a bind none of them could have foreseen.
Powerful juju.
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