Losing Isaiah
Who decides what makes a mother?
19951h 46mNo ratings yet
- Drama
Overview
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- single parent
- drug addiction
- child abuse
- racist
- interracial relationship
- liberation
- social worker
- extramarital affair
- smoking
- court case
- mother
- adoption
- baby
- son
- custody battle
- looking for birth parents
- self-abandonment
- social work
- surrogate mother
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 17, 1995
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount,Paramount Pictures
- Cast
- LaTanya Richardson Jackson,Joan Kohn,Thomica Laquice Simmons,David Strathairn,Jacqueline Williams,Glenda Starr Kelly,LaTaunya Bounds,Ora Jones,John Beasley,Evan Lioneland 39 more
- Director
- Stephen Gyllenhaal
- Writer
- Seth Margolis,Naomi Foner
- Producer
- Hawk Koch,Naomi Foner
- Cinematography
- Andrzej Bartkowiak
- Music
- Mark Isham
- Budget
- $17,000,000
- Revenue
- $7,603,766
- IMDb
- tt0113691