This movie is about a little girl with abusive parents who is sent to an orphanage by police and then adopted by a caring couple. Throughout the movie, her biological parents make numerous attempts to get her back.

This is a movie that I was really looking forward to seeing after I saw the preview for it. I have to say that this movie really proves the age old saying, “You don’t have to be blood related to be family,” or “Family isn’t whose blood you carry. It’s who you love and who loves you.” This was an actual quote from Jackie Chan in the movie “The spy next door,” (A movie I will soon also write about in my blog.)

However, for the most part of this movie, that statement was made to be true after the little child’s adopted parents did everything to make her comfortable, (giving her a place to sleep, good food to eat, etc) while her biological parents showed that that they did not care about her as much in the way they took care of her. They did this by stealing food from random houses to feed her and showing that the only reason they really wanted her back was to look as if they were caring people. 

One scene that I really disagree with was the one where the child’s biological mother attempts to kidnap her from the school playground at recess only to be stopped by police, which forces the family to stay elsewhere in an attempt to keep the girl safe from her parents. I think this is the complete opposite of how parents should act, not to mention that there was another scene i was even more disgusted with. This scene took place in the hospital after a woman had given birth. This woman was a friend of the girl’s adopted parents and they were staying at their house. In a scene that gives me the creeps, the girl’s biological mother enters the room where the newborn baby was lying next to his mom. In an attempt to find out where the girl was, the woman picked up the baby and threatened to steal or even harm him if she wasn’t told where they were. This scene set up the climax of the film as the parents were able to locate the girl and her adopted parents. I will say the movie ends up having a happy ending so as not to ruin it for those people who want to see it if they haven’t seen it already.

I think the main thing I can take away from this movie is that it makes me appreciate the kind of family I have and the fact that I’ll never have to go through life with a foster family or adopted parents because my family is everything that the girl in the movie’s biological parents should have been, (kind, caring loving,) etc. I will say this this movie taught me one important thing and this is that not everybody has a family who loves them. It just goes to show that family is a gift and not one that should be taken for granted.

With all of that in mind, I do believe that the girl’s adopted parents surely proved to her that they love her.

For anyone who has not seen this movie yet, I would recommend it.