kryan-79533 Well done about a subject that needs to addressed more. But if they were all on Dr. Phil I imagine the good doctor would point out to Halles's character that she seemed to want her son back as much if not more so, for herself and her own healing.

Irishchatter 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!

PL1981 "Losing Isaiah" is one of those movies which should have been a masterpiece. It had a star-studded cast of very talented actors and actresses and a controversial premise that could have proved intriguing and thought provoking. It's such a shame then that this movie is undermined by weak plot development, poor character development and a sloppy script To be fair, this movie isn't terrible but I think that's mostly due to the excellent casting in this movie rather than anything else. Jessica Lange gives great depth and dimension to her role and allows the viewer to feel great sympathy, understanding and compassion for her character and its predicament. Samuel L Jackson also gives quite a lot of depth to his role Mark John Jeffries is amazing in his portrayal of Isaiah -great talent for one so young -and Daisy Eagan's performance as Jessica Lange's daughter is also wonderful. This is not Halle Berry's best performance but in all fairness, I don't think this is totally her fault for reasons I'll mention below The character development is woeful. Both Halle Berry and Samuel L Jackson in particular are essentially reduced to stock characters with the latter in particular reduced to spouting out tired old clichés about race and racial stereotypes that are tedious and almost painful to watch. In the hands of more talented production/script team, these issues could probably have been discussed and explored much more effectively but here they just sound weak and annoying. Halle Berry's character is equally as badly sketched and the writers fail to give it the depth and the substance (or the dialogue or emotion) that would allow the audience to feel greater sympathy or empathy for her and her predicament.Finally there's the plot development. Although the writers/producers do a good job exploring the circumstances behind the adoption of Isaiah by the Lewin family and illustrating how he has become an integral part of the family, they drop the ball as soon as they introduce the sequence of events where Halle Berry's character wants custody back of her baby. In particular the courtroom drama relating to Halle Berry's desire to have her son back was ultimately weak and deeply flawed -failing to explore the issues properly beyond a bunch of tired of clichés -and this meant that the court's ultimate judgment was unsatisfying and difficult to comprehend by the audience. To be fair, the ending to the movie wasn't totally awful but probably was a too cute effort to try and wrap everything up and tie up the loose ends and forge some attempt at consensus -probably unrealistic in real life."Losing Isaiah" is still a watchable movie despite all these flaws but it's just incredibly frustrating to see all the potential of a great cast and a great plot potential squandered. If you read Jessica Lange's comments about this movie in the trivia section, it probably sums up accurately this movie and all that is wrong with it

RaeganBeaumont_99 2 women 1 child, but all the love in the world. Halle Berry was outstanding and Jessica Lang was as well. This movie was a great touching movie and showed us all that the love of a child goes deeper than anyone can imagine. A drug addict who leaves her baby in a box so she can go get high. A Dr. who gets attached to this drug addicted baby, who later adopts him. Its about a family who loves this little boy more than anything and in one swift moment the mother comes back, clean and sober and wants her baby back. Does she deserve him, whose to say, just because she made a mistake and almost killed him doesn't mean she loves him any less right??? A story about a woman who sees that she cant come in and take a child and make everything alright, a woman who feels dead and wants to die than to lose the child she has come to love as her own. Two women who come together to give this child all the love that they can. Its a touching movie, and and inspiration to see one woman turn her life around. Its a story not about race, but about LOVE and how one and even two can love someone so much. I really enjoyed it.