FREE: Halle Berry & Jessica Lange in "LOSING ISAIAH" [VHS] (1995)

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Great movie in original box in like new condition.

Actors: Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn, Cuba Gooding Jr., Daisy Eagan
Directors: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Writers: Naomi Foner, Seth Margolis
Producers: Hawk Koch, Kimberly Brent, Naomi Foner, Sharon Owyang
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Rated: R (Restricted)
Number of tapes: 1
Studio: Paramount
VHS Release Date: April 1, 1997
Run Time: 111 minutes

Jessica Lange is a social worker who falls for an abandoned newborn and breaks all the rules by bringing him home. Halle Berry is the homeless druggie who dumped the baby. One of the film's best attributes is that it reveals everyone's perspective, though much of the story is told from Berry's point of view. Strung out on crack, Berry's character thinks nothing of hiding her baby in a cardboard box near a dumpster before going off for a fix. We watch Berry painfully pull herself up out of the gutter and make a life for herself. She embraces decency and sobriety and becomes the person she might have always been had her childhood been different. After Lange and her amiable spouse (David Strathairn) have formed strong family ties with this difficult child, they find themselves fighting to keep him when Berry decides she wants Isaiah back. Naomi Foner's clever script reveals a legal system that is as much a character in this painful story as the attorney (Samuel L. Jackson) who takes on the case pro bono. Though the film ultimately flounders under a hesitant ending, Lange is such a dynamo that this tragic story still comes recommended.