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Director:
Alan Metzger
Writer (WGA):
Scott Swanton (written by)
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Release Date:
15 March 1998 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Two versions? It's not that bad.... more

Cast

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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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Change of Heart (Australia) (cable TV title)
The Child in Question (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
91 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
USA:Not Rated | Australia:M
Filming Locations:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Two versions? It's not that bad...., 24 January 2008
8/10
Author: MarieGabrielle from United States

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.

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