adoption movies

Peter Pan (1953)

Friday, October 30th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Isaacs, Jason | Sumpter, Jeremy | Briers, Richard | Palmer, Geoffrey | Newell, Harry | Popplewell, Freddie | Chester, Theodore | Simonian, Rupert | MacKay, George | Eden, Harry | Gooch, Patrick | Gooch, Lachlan | Waters, Mathew | Cinis, Alan | Whitten, Frank
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Based upon Sir James M. Barrie’s 1904 play about the boy who refuses to grow up, the film begins in the London nursery of Wendy, John, and Michael Darling, where three children are visited by Peter Pan. With the help of his tiny friend, the fairy Tinkerbell, Peter takes the three children on a magical flight to Never Land. This enchanted island is home to Peter, Tink, the Lost Boys, Tiger Lily and her Native American nation, and the scheming Captain Hook who is as intent on defeating Peter Pan as he is from escaping the tick-tocking crocodile that once ate a hand of his that Peter Pan cut off—and loved the taste of so much.

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Sharif, Omar | Christie, Julie | Chaplin, Geraldine | Steiger, Rod | Guinness, Alec | Courtenay, Tom | McKenna, Siobhan | Richardson, Ralph | Tushingham, Rita | Rockland, Jeffrey | Sharif, Tarek | Kay, Bernard | Kinski, Klaus | Tichy, Gérard | Willman, Noel
Directors: Lean, David
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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.

Palindromes (2004)

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Faber, Matthew | Pietropinto, Angela | Buell, Bill | Sledge, Emani | Barkin, Ellen | Shusterov, Valerie | Masur, Richard | Smith, Hillary Bailey | Stone, Danton | Agri, Robert | Freiman, Hannah | Singer, Stephen | Corr, Rachel | Adly Guirgis, Stephen
Directors: Solondz, Todd
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A fable of innocence: thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a ‘mom’. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. She takes a road trip from the suburbs of New Jersey, through Ohio to the plains of Kansas and back. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it’s hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again.

God Told Me To (1976)

Friday, March 20th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lo Bianco, Tony | Raffin, Deborah | Dennis, Sandy | Sylvia Sidney | Levene, Sam | Drivas, Robert | Kellin, Mike | Lynch, Richard | Williams, Sammy | Chase, Jo Flores | Roerick, William | Rawlins, Lester | Bellaver, Harry | Patterson, George | Steele, Walter
Directors: Cohen, Larry
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A rash of mass murders in NYC has the detective stumped. When asked why, all the perpetrators say “God told me to,” then kill themselves.

Pollyanna (1960)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Burton, Amanda | Cranham, Kenneth | Terry, Georgina | Gillett, Aden | Ferris, Pam | Ashfield, Kate | Bell, Tom | Ellis, Tom | Bamber, David | Thornton, Ben | Flynn, Judy | Walker, Amanda | Duffett, Nicola | Carey, Jan | Nash, Jane
Directors: Harding, Sarah
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Even after having lived the hardscrabble life of a missionary’s daughter all her life and seen the loss of both parents, young Pollyanna Whittier refuses to be depressed. Instead, she must be glad about anything she can think of, and it’s paid off big time. Now, however, she must go to live with her cold, spinsterish aunt in a town inhibited by embittered, unfriendly souls. Can she use her glad game to win over everyone and transform the town?

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Novarro, Ramon | Bushman, Francis X. | McAvoy, May | Bronson, Betty | McDowell, Claire | Key, Kathleen | Myers, Carmel | De Brulier, Nigel | Lewis, Mitchell | White, Leo | Currier, Frank | Belcher, Charles | Fuller, Dale | Hall, Winter | Barker, Reginald
Directors: Brabin, Charles
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Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.

Torch Singer (1933)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Colbert, Claudette | Cortez, Ricardo | Manners, David | Roberti, Lyda | Baby LeRoy | Grapewin, Charley | Godfrey, Sam | Roberts, Florence | Hammond, Virginia | Washington, Mildred | Collins, Cora Sue | Eddy, Helen Jerome | Conti, Albert | Griffies, Ethel | Burke, James
Directors: Hall, Alexander
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Sally Trent has an illegitimate child, but cannot support her and gives the baby up for adoption. The father, Michael Gardner, leaves for China not knowing about the baby, and she assumes he has abandoned her for life. She gets a job as a torch singer, changes her name to Mimi Benton, and becomes notorious for her drinking and philadering. Mimi fills in on a children’s radio program as the character “Aunt Jenny,” singing and telling bedtime stories, and eventually uses the airtime to find her long lost daughter, part with her wild lifestyle, and reunite with Michael.

Babe (1995)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Cavanaugh, Christine | Margolyes, Miriam | Mann, Danny | Weaving, Hugo | Flynn, Miriam | Taylor, Russi | Krape, Evelyn | Edward-Stevens, Michael | Bartlett, Charles | Livingston, Paul | Browne, Roscoe Lee | Cromwell, James | Szubanski, Magda | Burton, Zoe | Goddard, Paul
Directors: Noonan, Chris
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Farmer Hoggett wins a runt piglet at a local fair and young Babe, as the piglet decides to call himself, befriends and learns about all the other creatures on the farm. He becomes special friends with one of the sheepdogs, Fly. With Fly’s help, and Farmer Hoggett’s intuition, Babe embarks on a career in sheepherding with some surprising and spectacular results.

Omen IV: The Awakening (1991)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Grant, Faye | Woods, Michael | Lerner, Michael | Mason, Madison | Hearn, Ann | Byrnes, Jim | Davis, Don S. | Vieira, Asia | Leitch, Megan | Coghill, Joy | Cameron, David | Fraser, Duncan | Chapple, Susan | Still, Dana | Mann, Andrea
Directors: Montesi, Jorge
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Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a mysterious girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys, Gene & Karen York. When Karen realizes her baby was born under suspicious circumstances, she hires a private investigator to find Delia’s real parents. A series of bizarre accidents occur, and Karen begins to suspect everyone of conspiring against her as she unravels the truth about her baby.

Omen IV: The Awakening (1991)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Grant, Faye | Woods, Michael | Lerner, Michael | Mason, Madison | Hearn, Ann | Byrnes, Jim | Davis, Don S. | Vieira, Asia | Leitch, Megan | Coghill, Joy | Cameron, David | Fraser, Duncan | Chapple, Susan | Still, Dana | Mann, Andrea
Directors: Montesi, Jorge
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Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a mysterious girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys, Gene & Karen York. When Karen realizes her baby was born under suspicious circumstances, she hires a private investigator to find Delia’s real parents. A series of bizarre accidents occur, and Karen begins to suspect everyone of conspiring against her as she unravels the truth about her baby.