by Stephen Gyllenhaal · DVD · EAN 8714865558966
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«Losing Isaiah» is the American drama film by Stephen Gyllenhaal (1995).
After being abandoned by his biological mother, Khaila Richards, a woman addicted to crack, the baby Isaiah is taken in by a white family who raise him as their own. Years later, Khaila, now rehabilitated, tries to regain custody of her son, which triggers a legal and emotional conflict between the biological mother and the adoptive mother, with debates about race, social class and what it means to be a mother.
For viewers interested in social dramas about adoption, addiction and racial and socioeconomic inequalities.
