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A Father for Brittany (1998) (TV)
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15 March 1998 (USA) morePlot:
Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Two versions? It's not that bad.... moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Andrew McCarthy | ... | Keith Lussier |
 | Michael Learned | ... | Edna Humphreys |
 | Teri Polo | ... | Kim Lussier |
| Linda Sorenson | ... | Marge Lussier |
 | Chuck Shamata | ... | Bob Minkowitz |
| Andrew Tarbet | ... | Jack |
| Jonathan Welsh | ... | Robert Lussier |
| Shirley Knight | ... | Donna Minkowitz |
| Diana Belshaw | ... | Bea |
| Robert Bockstael | ... | Atty. Sam Turturro |
| Linda Brooks | ... | Reporter #1 |
| Hugo Dann | ... | Father John |
| Dan Duran | ... | Field Reporter |
| Deborah Grover | ... | Judge Harriot Richardson |
 | Judah Katz | ... | Jacobs |
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A Change of Heart (Australia) (cable TV title)The Child in Question (USA) (working title)
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Apparently a different version was released in the U.K. Over here we saw the sanitized version I suppose. Perhaps in the future we will have less censorship regarding gay adoption.
Still Andrew McCarthy is acceptable as a widowed father who needs to hold onto his adoptive daughter Brittany. Terri Polo, his wife suddenly succumbs to cancer, and he is left with just the grandparents to raise his child. The agency, the premise (in this version) is that he can no longer have his daughter, as the agency adopts only to father and mother. In this country with currently, a 51% divorce rate, that would not be a practical statute for an adoption agency to enforce. Having worked with attorneys who foster adoption here from Roumania, the children are certainly adopted out to single mothers AND fathers.
There are some good scenes with Shirley Knight ("As Good As it Gets") and McCarthy is very good as the father only wanting to love his daughter and retain legal custody. 8/10.