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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Jonathan Karsh |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 2002 |
| MANUFACTURER: | New Video Group |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Adoption, Biography, Color, Compassionate, Culture & Society, Digital Video, Documentary, Drama, Earnest, English, Family & Personal Relationships, Gentle, Heartwarming, Illnesses & Disabilities, Interpersonal Relationships, Intimate, Living With Disability, Movie, Parenting, Poignant |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 767685961537 |
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Customer Reviews of My Flesh and Blood
One of the most moving movies I have ever seen. Charity personified. An unforgetable portrait of courage and sacrifice on the part of the mom, and of courage and tenacity in the children. This movie speaks to the meaning of life (which is never seen in modern media).
hard to believe
Susan Tom is a divorced, single mother in California who after having two biological children adopted eleven handicapped children. This emotionally intense documentary film is not about a smiley Brady Bunch, but about a raucous household of children with serious and severe problems--mental, physical, emotional and medical. Faith was horribly disfigured in a fire as an infant. Xenia was born with no legs. Teenager Joe is a deeply angry and explosive child who threatens to kill Xenia; he eventually dies from Cystic Fibrosis. Others are mentally retarded. Susan describes herself as "fat but interesting." Both adjectives understate the case. She does not work outside the home, but instead supports everyone, and her $600 a week grocery bill, from SSI income. Margaret, age 18, is unwillingly conscripted to help make it all work, and breaks down in screams to get her mother's attention. Perhaps the mark of a fine film is that in watching it you think far more about its subjects than about how they are portrayed. My Flesh and Blood won the Audience Documentary Award at the 2003 Sundance festival.
a good look at an unbelievable situation
This is an excellent, well made documentary. I like documentaries because in real life, we don't get the binary good-person/bad-person thing we do in fiction. Watching this movie, you see good things and bad things in all of the characters and in the living situation in which they find themselves. I couldn't help but be drawn into this documentary, and would recommend it to anyone with interest in adoption, family dynamics, individuals with special needs, or just looking for a good movie.