Around the time that Jessica Lange won an Oscar for "Blue Sky", she starred in a pair of unrelated movies. She appeared in "Rob Roy" as the title character's wife, and in "Losing Isaiah" as a social worker who adopts a black baby.
This movie shows a stark contrast between the life of Lange's character (a middle-class white woman) and the life of Halle Berry's character (a recovering crack user in the ghetto). Things grow tense during the trial, especially in the racially-charged discussion between the characters. In the end, it's not a great movie, but like Lawrence Kasdan's "Grand Canyon" looks at the state of race relations in the 1990s, and presents all the issues surrounding adoption. Worth seeing.
Yes, for all these years I had been wishing that Samuel L. Jackson and Jessica Lange could co-star...and it turned out that they done so years ago!
Director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal are the parents of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal.
This movie shows a stark contrast between the life of Lange's character (a middle-class white woman) and the life of Halle Berry's character (a recovering crack user in the ghetto). Things grow tense during the trial, especially in the racially-charged discussion between the characters. In the end, it's not a great movie, but like Lawrence Kasdan's "Grand Canyon" looks at the state of race relations in the 1990s, and presents all the issues surrounding adoption. Worth seeing.
Yes, for all these years I had been wishing that Samuel L. Jackson and Jessica Lange could co-star...and it turned out that they done so years ago!
Director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal are the parents of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal.