Losing Isaiah - My Review Losing Isaiah - My Review I just finished watching this movie (of course in the original English language). The story is about a black junkie young woman who gives birth to a baby. The night she gave birth to the baby she badly needed a hit of crack, she didn’t know what she was doing so she threw the baby in the garbage and then got herself stoned. The next morning she tries to search for the baby, but he has already be taken to the hospital. Later, the baby is adopted by a well-off white family and the foster mother was among the first people to take care of the child when his life was in danger, since she worked in the hospital. After three years, the real mother claims the child back, taking the white foster mother to court. The movie poses an interesting racial issue, and we see during the trail the two lawyers (both of who are Afro-American) of the opposite parties arguing about which family would be best for the child: a white affluent family or his real black nearly broke mother? The black woman’s lawyer try to make a point about the need the child has to know his origins, and to be raised by “his people” (blacks). The ending is stirring and I think is a very good movie, with a brilliant Jessica Lange as the foster mother. I found the movie quite easy to understand, even though the black mother spoke in a very bad English (I ain’t got no 300 dollars for tha' rent… just to give an example) and with a strong ebonic accent. Although, as usual, I missed some words, that did not hinder my fully understanding about what was going on. I will look further into this issue, I’m very keen to know what the American law might really says, but I guess’ll be a difficult task, since every states will surely have many different laws regarding this matter.