Losing Isaiah

Rating:
Summary: Good story plot ;good acting by "et al"
Review: 12/04/03 The movie ends with one line on the screen Isaiah 11:6 "and a little child shall lead them"...Supense is there from the moment that the child's biological mother*(played by actress Halle Berry*)) puts him in a cardboard box behind the "beastly room she has herself & he living in"; to him being rescued from the inside of a Muncipal Trash Truck " in the nick of time;to the ER representing itself as the life saving force of hospitals once more, in rescusitating him; with a woman* (of another race and her family adopting him)played by actress Jessica Lange*) saving him from an early life of "foster homes" ,his biological mother raising from her demons,pits and dens of self destruction",the courts ruling in favor of the biological mother (so he can be raised in the culture which is the reality that he must be groomed to realize)to an ending of the adoptee's mother and the biological mother going beyond "self" to be a team in helping him reach the age of reason and beyond as a sensible human.

Rating:
Summary: Good story plot ;good acting by "et al"
Review: 12/04/03 The movie ends with one line on the screen Isaiah 11:6 "and a little child shall lead them"...Supense is there from the moment that the child's biological mother*(played by actress Halle Berry*)) puts him in a cardboard box behind the "beastly room she has herself & he living in"; to him being rescued from the inside of a Muncipal Trash Truck " in the nick of time;to the ER representing itself as the life saving force of hospitals once more, in rescusitating him; with a woman* (of another race and her family adopting him)played by actress Jessica Lange*) saving him from an early life of "foster homes" ,his biological mother raising from her demons,pits and dens of self destruction",the courts ruling in favor of the biological mother (so he can be raised in the culture which is the reality that he must be groomed to realize)to an ending of the adoptee's mother and the biological mother going beyond "self" to be a team in helping him reach the age of reason and beyond as a sensible human.

Rating:
Summary: Great Drama, Questionable Storyline
Review: Actually, this is more like 3 1/2 stars. This one makes for great drama, but is it really realistic? Berry, Lange, Jackson and the others give fine performances, but would this, or at least should this case have ever even gone to court? The woman put the kid in the garbage for godsakes! In my opinion any parent (Black, White or otherwise) who puts their child in the garbage for whatever reason, permanently forfeits the right to care for the child. I don't think the case ever should have gone to trial. But then there wouldn't have been any movie, would there?

Rating:
Summary: DVD
Review: Do you know if this movie is on DvD I want this movie so bad on dvd and can't find it anywhere.... if it is not do you know if it every will. please let me know thanks
Gayle Insonia

Rating:
Summary: DVD
Review: Do you know if this movie is on DvD I want this movie so bad on dvd and can't find it anywhere.... if it is not do you know if it every will. please let me know thanks
Gayle Insonia

Rating:
Summary: Powerful and Emotional
Review: For those of you that think Halle is just a pretty face...hopefully her Oscar winning performance in "Monster's Ball" showed you that she wasn't...but if you still have doubts this is a movie you should see. Halle is well deserving of an Oscar in this film as well, she plays a crack addicted homeless woman who loses it all and dumps her baby in the trash just so she can get a hit...when she comes out of her drug stooper she then realizes her mistake, but it's too late. The baby was adopted by a white family and she believes her baby to have died. The movie takes off from there, the white family raises and cares for the child. After Halle's character struggles but reforms herself she finds out that the child is still alive. Then the battle for who is rightfully the parent of the child begins. Some of the highlights here...Samuel L. Jackson's role as Halle's Lawyer and the scene in which the 2 "mothers" meet in the bathroom for the first time...that is a very powerful scene. The movie is a very powerful and moving piece of cinema. Excellent film.

Rating:
Summary: Powerful and Emotional
Review: For those of you that think Halle is just a pretty face...hopefully her Oscar winning performance in "Monster's Ball" showed you that she wasn't...but if you still have doubts this is a movie you should see. Halle is well deserving of an Oscar in this film as well, she plays a crack addicted homeless woman who loses it all and dumps her baby in the trash just so she can get a hit...when she comes out of her drug stooper she then realizes her mistake, but it's too late. The baby was adopted by a white family and she believes her baby to have died. The movie takes off from there, the white family raises and cares for the child. After Halle's character struggles but reforms herself she finds out that the child is still alive. Then the battle for who is rightfully the parent of the child begins. Some of the highlights here...Samuel L. Jackson's role as Halle's Lawyer and the scene in which the 2 "mothers" meet in the bathroom for the first time...that is a very powerful scene. The movie is a very powerful and moving piece of cinema. Excellent film.

Rating:
Summary: baby in the crack
Review: Give director Stephen Gyllenhaal a lesser actress like Barbara Hershey, or Halle Berry in his this film, and you'll get a fine performance. Give him a great actress like Debra Winger in A Dangerous Woman, or Jessica Lange here, and he'll stiff 'em. In spite of looking dowdy next to the beautiful in an underwritten role, and being shunted to the side for a major part of the narrative, Lange still triumphs. The role offers her as little opportunity as her (unduly) celebrated one in Blue Sky, but she has her marvellous physicality and commanding presence. In one scene, laying on a bed, she is a suburban Blanche DuBois. The plot has Lange adopting Berry's abandoned crack baby only to have to face a custody battle when Barry wants the child back. Gyllenhaal's layered presentation of the African-American community and Berry's recovery is surprising, though Mark Isham's score is obtrusive. Berry is well matched with Cuba Gooding Jnr as a smiling suitor, but she lacks Lange's screen empathy. When Berry drops tears on a book, we feel sorry for the book. The racial politics make the hearing decision inevitable, so thankfully Gyllenhaal continues the story to a humane conclusion.

Rating:
Summary: jessica lange is the best
Review: i have seen the movie 3-4 times and love it more and more.Jessica Lange is the best actress in this world,and her performence in Losing Isaiah proves it.She make it seem like the story is happening right in my own life. MAKE MORE MOVIES SOON,JESSICA--PLEASE

Rating:
Summary: Great Movie
Review: I loved this movie my opinion is that he should go back to his mother. This is a wonderful movie I recommend it.

Halle Berry is wonderful in this movie