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Release Date:
16 February 1992 (USA) morePlot:
Fact-based story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings. | full synopsisAwards:
1 nomination moreUser Comments:
A good plain tearjerker! moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sarah Jessica Parker | ... | Callie Cain |
 | Sally Struthers | ... | Patty Pepper |
| Lexi Randall | ... | Jessica Cain |
 | Gary Graham | ... | John Birney |
| Susan Barnes | ... | Donna Evans |
| Jayne Atkinson | ... | Wanda Birney |
 | John Dennis Johnston | ... | Harlan Pepper |
| Tom Hodges | ... | Ray Jacobs |
| Elizabeth Ashley | ... | Carla Scott |
 | Jessica Campbell | ... | Julie Cain |
| Lacey Guyon | ... | Susan Cain |
| Amanda Laughlin | ... | Cindy Cain (at 5) |
| Molly Laughlin | ... | Cindy Cain (at 3) |
 | Harry Lennix | ... | Tim Coffey |
| Sonny Stinnett | ... | Baby Jason Cain |
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Add content advisory for parentsRuntime:
96 minCountry:
USALanguage:
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StereoFilming Locations:
Iowa, USAFun Stuff
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Revealing mistakes: When Callie Cain returns from grocery shopping, she shows Jessie the cartons of milk she bought. When she picks them up, one by one, in one hand and sets them back down its obvious the cartons are empty. moreQuotes:
[In the school yard]Susan Cain: [to the other children] Save it! You don't know nothing! Zero! Nothing!
Jessica: What happened?
Susan Cain: They say we stink, they say we wear garbage can clothes.
Jessica: You don't stink, they do. They're such butts.
Susan Cain: You butts!
Julie: Big butts!
Susan Cain: Big, fat, stinky butts!
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This movie makes me cry everytime. I truly wish the children's court would look beyond "for the best interest of the children" and look from a child's point of view. I know people who were in child protective custodies as children and who have not fully recovered from being shipped from home to home. Some who ended up with messed up lives, and some who came clean. This movie I think was very good. It reminds me alot of the book "Homecomming" which about four children trying to run away from the system and end up living in their grandmother's home, but this movie has a sad ending. If I were the kids, I'd keep on running to that loving home that every child dreams about.