Losing Isaiah
By: Paramount Pictures ; produced by Howard W. Koch, Jr. and Naomi Foner ; screenplay by Naomi Foner ; directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Contributors: Gyllenhaall, Stephen, film director; Lange, Jessica, actor; Berry, Halle, actor; Strathairn, David, actor; Gooding, Cuba, Jr., 1968- actor; Jackson, Samuel L., actor; Isham, Mark, composer; Bartkowiak, Andrzej, 1950- director of photography; Paramount Pictures Corporation
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9780792190721
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Drama; Birthmothers; Adoption; Families in motion pictures; Trials (Custody of children); Interracial adoption; Film adaptations
Description: A white couple adopt an African American newborn, but his birthmother reappears several years later and wants to contest the adoption.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1995.

Based on the novel by Seth Margolis.

Director of photography, Andrzej Bartkowiak ; editor, Harvey Rosenstock ; music, Mark Isham ; costume designer, Mary Malin ; production designer, Jeannine C. Oppewall.

Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Samuel L. Jackson.

MPAA rating: R.

DVD, region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital, surround; widescreen format, enhanced for 16:9 TVs.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.