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Poor adoption message!
As an adoptive parent myself, I was cautiously interested in the adoption message in this movie. I had heard that Karen Kingsbury is also an adoptive parent, and I heard her say that she hoped that this movie would help motivate others to adopt. Although the movie was about adoption, it was by no means a pro-adoption movie!!

Please tell me what part of this movie would make anyone say, "Boy, this really makes me want to adopt and jump into that can of worms!"? I really am concerned about this movie. Being on the inside of adoption, this movie seems to be exploiting and sensationalizing adoption in a very nightmarish and unrealistic situation.

How many adopted children will hear of or see this movie and then live in fear that this tug-of-war might happen to them? How many adoptive parents will see this movie and have it shake them to the core with fears of legal nightmares? How many potential adoptive families will be turned off to the idea and run scared in...

Ruination of Perfectly Good Christian Novel
My wife read the book and was very much looking forward to going to see the movie. However, the movie was not true to the book in most of the christian aspects. Items such as the chikds cousins teaching him how to pray and more of the part where the family was in Haiti and the childs interactions with the Haitian children. The movie producers decided to only make the movie for a secular movie audience and left out all of the important christian aspects of the book. If you read the book first and then saw what they produced as a movie, you would seriously be disappointed in the movie. They ruined a perfectly good christian novel. I can't believe that Mrs. Kingsbury actually let the movie producers get away with what they left out.

Was definitely not as expected
I had seen this movie advertised for almost a year in many, many Christian venues. Internet, magazines, movie trailers and as a Christian movie, it fell way short. A hallmark movie possibly but had no Christian content except for Christian relative, a church service and a missions trip which was used to help someone escape. In fact, the movie made the female leads' sister (the Christian in the movie) seem like the bad guy for reporting the lead as they were attempting to break the law, which made her look like the bad guy. So, if you are looking for a Christian movie, then pass on this one. If you are just looking for entertainment then maybe it is for you. One major warning tho....my wife is a domestic abuse survivor and the scene containing spousal abuse was real enough to really cause her distress. She had to leave the room and was shaken. So be warned it is a short part but real and brutal enough to gain a response from those sensitive to it.

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