This film is based on
a novel by Karen Kingsbury. The
Porters are a struggling blue-collar family in Ohio. The Campbell family is very privileged, wealthy and they
live in Florida. Their lives
intersect, intertwine and collide because of love for a little boy. Richard ‘Rip’ Porter is an alcoholic
with anger issues and he’s arrested for beating his wife Wendy. Rip is sent to prison for seven years. When Rip is released from prison, he’s
sober and he has taken anger management courses. He suggests starting a family but Wendy tells him that she
had a son and she gave him up for adoption. Jack Campbell and his wife Molly have six-year Joey and his
birth parents are Rip and Wendy. Rip immediately wants custody of his
son. Someone inside the prison forged
Rip’s signature on the adoption papers and there ten other cases of forgery.
There are always two
sides to every story. In
Joey’s case, are his birth parents Rip and Wendy mentally capable of taking
care of him?? Just because Jack
and Molly are wealthy, does that make them better parents? The bottom line is that both families
want and love Joey but what is best for Joey? Brent Pepper can really play a hardworking but dirty and messy looking guy!! 3* (This movie is OK)
100
min, Drama directed by Jon Gunn with Mira Sorvino, Barry Pepper, Cole Hauser, Kate
Levering, Maxwell Perry Cotton, L. Scott Caldwell, Abby Brammell, Kirk. B.R.
Woller, Brett Rice, Neil Ronco, Brooke and Blake Michael Bryan.
Note: Imdb 7.1 out of 10, 82% critic 76%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Common Sense Media age 15+, positive 3*, role
models 3*, violence 2*, language 1*, consumerism 1*, drinking, drugs &
smoking 4*, Amazon 4.2* out of 5* with 139 reviews. Goodreads gives the book 4.23* out of 5* with 8,322 ratings.
Special
Note: Rip is the character played
by Berry Pepper. One scene with
Rip meeting their dog was not supposed to include the dog-biting Rip on the
nose. The dog decided to improvise
and Berry Pepper was actually bitten by the dog.
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