Losing Isaiah (1995)

Just perfect...

Best movie of this year hands down!

Blistering performances.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I honestly felt sorry for poor Isaiah on what he was going through. The mother being a drug addict and just dumping him in a box. Unfortunately in real life, there are people out there who don't look after themselves and their kids in maintaining life together. In my personal opinion, I think people shouldn't bring their kids into the world if they can't look after them. It would be a concern for both safety and reputation for any adult,child teen or baby to not live in a suitable environment which is a danger for themselves!Anyways back to the movie, I honestly thought that mentioning a person's color just to make the other person feel bad was wrong to put in this movie. I hated the way Samuel L. Jackson's character kept going on and on about being a color to raising another color and the way he said it, it sounded like he was wrong! I'm not mentioning colors but I hated how himself and Halle Berry ' s character kept ranting on about it! Very tense I swear! I really was upset for Isaiah when they took him away, it really breaks your heart especially at his young age! It's very stressful for a child to get back to reality and that, he was so attached to his adoptive parents! Even though at the end, the movie didn't give us the resolution we wanted to but, my hope is that he gets to see both parents and that he'll become a great man!It was good to see Jessica Lange, Halle Berry,Cuba Gooding Jr. and Samuel L. Jackson on this. Such legends!

LOSING ISAIAH is a moving and well-acted drama that takes a hot-button issue to an emotionally manipulative level but will involve you to the point of taking sides. Halle Berry plays a crack addict who, one night desperate to get high, leaves her newborn baby in a pile of garbage and when she returns after her mission, finds the baby gone. The baby is rescued and is eventually taken home and raised by a sensitive social worker (Jessica Lange) who decides to raise and adopt the hyper-active, crack-addicted baby as her own. In the meantime, Berry gets clean, wants her baby back and takes Lange to court to regain custody of her son. This is an involving story that provides a balanced account of an emotional issue and if you're really paying attention, you will find your alliance with the protagonists in this story switching from time to time. Lange is solid, as always, and Halle Berry works hard at being convincing as a reformed junkie. Strong support is provided by Samuel L. Jackson and LaWanda Richardson (the real-life spouse of Jackson)as Lange and Berry's attorneys, David Straithern as Lang'es husband, and Daisy Prince as Lange's daughter. No matter how hard you try to remain neutral, this film will suck you in and find you taking sides.

Firstly this movie could see like a boring drama but it's not. Why ? Because it involves you. The subject is very good and acting is very realistic and impressive especially the white mother's.You can see and understand the love between a mother and son in this movie. ALLAH (The God) created a very powerful instinct inside mothers' hearts. I saw this instinct in this movie so I really liked and affected me much.This movie can make you cry, don't go after fake love with selfish people, love is very near of you : devoted and faithful mothers of us and their love to children but never forget only the true love is for and from ALLAH.

I've seen this movie on BET a few times and I like it.But...How could the baby seem and look ok when it's older, later on in the movie we see him at his "other mother's" house and he seems fine.His birth mother, Halle Barry, was a crack addict then he should have had something wrong with him. And how could his "other mother" conincidentally call the baby Isahiah?There wasn't a nametag or nothing to know what the baby's name is so she just SOMEHOW knew the baby's name...I'm just a nitpicker...I reccommend this even though most people give it bad reviews...