Movies tagged as "foster parent"

I Am Sam [2001, USA ] starting from $1.99

love is all you need

Genres: Drama Actors: Sean Penn, Richard Schiff, Brad Silverman, Joseph Rosenberg, Stanley DeSantis, Doug Hutchison, Ken Jenkins, Mason Lucero, Scott Paulin, Bobby Cooper, Michael B. Silver, Chase MacKenzie Bebak, Rafer Weigel, Brent Spiner, David Nathan Schwartz Directors: Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.

White Oleander [2002, USA, Germany ] starting from $1.99

Where does a mother end and a daughter begin?

Genres: Drama Actors: Amy Aquino, John Billingsley, Elisa Bocanegra, Darlene Bohorquez, Solomon Burke Jr., Scott Allan Campbell, Sam Catlin, Debra Christofferson, Billy Connolly, Marc Donato, Svetlana Efremova, Patrick Fugit, Vernon Haas, Sean Happy, Cole Hauser, Directors: Peter Kosminsky Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Astrid Magnussen is a 15 year old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid, is a beautiful, free-spirited poet. Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named Barry Kolker (that her mother refers to at first as "The goat man") comes into their lives, and Ingrid falls madly in love with him, only to have her heart broken, and her life ruined. For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favourite flower: The White Oleander. She is sent to prison for life, and Astrid has to go through foster home after foster home. Throughout nearly a decade she experiences forbidden love, religion, near-death experiences, drugs, starvation, and how it feels to be loved. But throughout these years, she keeps in touch with her mother via letters to prison. And while Ingrid's gift is to give Astrid the power to survive, Astrid's gift is to teach her Mother about love.