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What Makes a Family (2001)
Directed by Maggie Greenwald
“Based on the controversial true story”
Drama, TV Movie · 2h 00m
Janine and Sandy are a lesbian couple who decide to have a baby, but after a few years Sandy dies. This tragedy is exploited by Sandy's parents to snatch the girl from Janine's care. But then, and despite having the laws against her, Janine decides to fight in order to regain custody of her daughter.
Cast
Brooke Shields
Janine Nielssen
Cherry Jones
Sandy Cataldi
Whoopi Goldberg
Terry Harrison
Anne Meara
Evelyn Cataldi
Al Waxman
Frank Cataldi
Jordy Benattar
Heather Cataldi
Melanie Nicholls-King
Nora
Stewart Arnott
Peter
Jo Vannicola
Melissa
Roberta Maxwell
Claire
Dean McDermott
O'Brien
Sean McCann
Judge Black
Crew
- Director
- Maggie Greenwald
- Writer
- Robert L. Freedman
- Director of Photography
- Rhett Morita
- Editor
- Keith Reamer
- Producer
- Wendy Grean
Details
- Release date
- 2001-01-22
- Runtime
- 2h 00m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada, United States of America
- Production
- Lifetime, Barwood Films, Columbia TriStar Television, Storyline Entertainment