When Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his other grandmother and uncle. His life is far from happy, filled with silence, rejection and bouts of violence.
Stephen Archibald
Jamie
Hughie Restorick
Tommy
Jean Taylor Smith
Grandmother
Bernard McKenna
Tommy's father
Mr. Munro
Jamie's grandad
Paul Kermack
Jamie's father
Helena Gloag
Father's mother
Jessie Combe
Father's wife
William Carroll
Father's son
When Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his other grandmother and uncle. His life is far from happy, filled with silence, rejection and bouts of violence.
เรื่องจริงของนักเขียนสาว จีนเน็ตต์ วอลส์ (บรี ลาร์สัน) ที่เริ่มต้นชีวิตในวัยเด็กด้วยการต้องดิ้นรนในครอบครัวที่มีพ่อติดเหล้า เร็กซ์ (วู้ดดี้ ฮาร์เรลสัน) และแม่ โรสแมรี่ (นาโอมิ วัตส์) ที่ยังเฝ้าตามฝันในการเป็นจิตรกรจนทำให้ครอบครัวต้องใช้ชีวิตอย่างดิ้นรนและโยกย้ายที่อยู่ไม่มีวันจบสิ้น แต่ในความไม่สมบูรณ์แบบ ทั้งสองก็รักจีนเน็ตต์และพี่น้องอีก 3 คนของเธอสุดหัวใจ คอยปกป้องและผลักดันให้ลูกๆ กล้าที่จะออกไปใช้ชีวิตเพื่อเติบโตขึ้นมาอย่างเข้มแข็ง และเหนืออื่นใด เร็กซ์ผู้เป็นพ่อยังมุ่งมั่นทำตามฝันที่จะสร้างปราสาทหลังงามให้ทุกคนได้อยู่ด้วยกัน
In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all the while facing numerous difficulties and obstacles during their journey.
ทารกชาวแอฟริกัน-อเมริกันที่ถูกแม่ที่ติดยาทอดทิ้งได้รับการรับเลี้ยงโดยนักสังคมสงเคราะห์ผิวขาวและสามีของเธอ หลายปีต่อมา แม่ของเด็กพบว่าลูกชายของเธอไม่ได้ตายอย่างที่เธอคิดไว้ก่อนหน้านี้ และเธอจึงไปศาลเพื่อนำเขากลับคืนมา
Led by Donna and Reverend W.C. Martin, 22 families from a rural Black church in the small East Texas town of Possum Trot adopt 77 of the most difficult-to-place kids in the foster system and kickstart a movement in the process.
When her boyfriend is arrested for marijuana possession, Joleen Reedy and her 11-year-old daughter, Tara, take refuge with Joleen's aimless brother, James. Joleen soon runs off with a truck driver, and James is unable to meet his responsibilities. After Child Protective Services takes possession of Tara, James abducts her from a foster home, and the two travel from California to Utah, where his abusive father lives.
15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone finds out that their mother has left them. Against all odds, and with the help of her loyal friends, she evades the authorities and navigates the most defining days of her young life.
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle. While out on the road one day, Jack notices a distressed child, and, after reuniting the girl with her family, becomes a local celebrity. But when a local newspaper unearths his past, Jack must cope with the anger of citizens who fear for the safety of their children.
Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still haunts her.
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.