Losing Isaiah [DVD]

Love it!

They have ordered this never received this, However, I love the movie

As soon as the movie began I was touched by the passion of this one. The helicopter circled above the ghetto with a bluesy trumpet and there came a woman's singing, only it sounded like suffering and agony. Then there was Khaila with her baby. Halle Berry didn't act like Khaila, she became Khaila. A crack addict Khaila did the unspeakable act of leaving her baby in a box in the garbage. Later she is arrested as she staggered along in the grocery with one eyebrow raised, shoplifting and looking for all the world like she was drugged. Amazing acting by Berry.Without Khaila's knowing her baby is saved from the hydraulics of the garbage truck.Isaiah meet Margaret. Mrs. Lewin was probably coached to be dramatic in the ER to be as pushy as possible but she comes off a nasty coworker mouthing off at doctors, cussing out judges and generally being difficult. I was put off by her office bully behavior. Coached or not I thought it was lousy work. But she and the family adopt Isaiah, a crack baby. Things get rough for the Lewin's but they stay with it and have the little boy for four years.Khaila meanwhile out of guilt and a need to change her life has gone into rehab, learns to read, and she grieves hard. She cannot escape and doesn't seem to want to. She wants to feel the loss of her child and it comes out in tears at every turn.Eventually her teacher learns Isaiah is not dead. And the main focus of the story begins. Khaila gets with a headstrong effective Lawyer and the Lewins hire a black lawyer and a custody hearing begins. Race is a loose cannon in the courtroom, in the bathroom, on the sidewalk. And it is race that is a stake. No one has a grudge against a member of the courtroom. But the most painful questions of the movie come out in determining the fate of a four year old African American boy,Good film. GJ

For years, we have grown so accustomed to the courtroom dramas which plays one side as hero and one as villain, it seems sometimes there's no other kind. The movie Losing Isaiah is another kind. This tale of a custody fight between a child's birth mother " Halle Berry" and the family that adopted him " Jessica lange and David Strathair" is a clash of two rights, two goods, honorable people with competing yet compellingly valid attachments to one child played by Marc John Jeffries. As such, it pulls at us in ways those rote Good Guy vs. Bad Guy dramas can't. The birth mother is poor, single, black; the adopters are well-off, married, white. Originally based on a novel, Losing Isaiah is a touching and at times heart wrenching drama that asks the question, 'who or what makes a good loving mother?'' and whether or not they can provide for the child, not on a financial level but on an emotional one, irrespective of the color of their skin. I was impressed by this film. Though very televisual like as if I am watching some lifetime movie in its presentation, the performances elevate it above ‘issue of the week’ TV movie status into something more pertinent and memorable. I really love this movie and yeah, I shed a few tears...who am I kidding, I was bawling like a baby! A beautifully done film with an amazing cast.

This movie was good but sad. It's horrible to take the kid away from his real mom and put him with the egg donor. I think if a case like this happened today the egg donor would have never gotten custody because what makes someone the rightful mom is being redefined now. I see Hale Berry as nothing more than the egg donor in this movie. It's like how today many women with bad eggs because of age or whatever will go to an egg bank where women donated eggs, and have a child that way. When this movie was made that technology didn't exist but today it does. I remember a story on youtube about a white Christian couple who couldn't have kids so they went to an egg bank for donated eggs and when they asked what race of eggs they wanted they deliberately said they wanted African American eggs. So they used the husband's sperm and the donated eggs and the woman gave birth to kids who looked black but they were the rightful parents. So kids you see with parents where the races don't match does not always mean they were adopted anymore. So what makes someone the rightful mom has been redefined now. So I see Hale Berry as just the egg donor. The white couple who raised him from infancy are the real and rightful parents. Race means nothing. There's only one race anyway, the human race.

good story

Part of the storyline is predictable, such as the affair of the father being used against the adoptive parents in court and the decision by the birth mother to share the caring of the child with the adoptive mother. In the interest of the child, both sides should have e come to a compromise instead of relying on the courts to come to a decision. There is a saying, even the fairest judge have difficulty deciding on family matters, yet the lawyers would fight to win in court. Yes, the battle in court may be won, but the bigger picture of sharing in the future well being of the child is so easy to be brush aside in the name of winning the court case.

Love this movie. It's a must watch

La storia è commovente, chi ha provato l’adozione ne sa qualcosa

My mum recommended this movie and am so glad I bought it Halle berry plays an Oscar winning performance in this film about a crack head mother who dumps her baby to score more drugs.she presumes he's dead only to find out few years later he's very much alive and living with a social worker and her family. She decided to give up drugs and try to get him back that's all I'm saying u will have to watch it to find out what happens very good film highly recommended!! :)

Love this film makes me cry

Bof. Jeu d'acteurs excellents mais je n'ai pas réellement accrochée à ce film. On reste sur sa faim. Quant à la fin du film, je m'attendais à plus de force et de profondeur. Pour ma part, le film manque de profondeur tout au long de la projection.

I was blown away with how good this movie was and will keep it in my collection forever