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1. Afterlife 11. A Christmas Carol 1. Citizen Kane 2. Secrets and Lies 12. Spitfire Grill 2. Zelig 3. Come Back Little Sheba 13. The Truman Show 3. Pinocchio 4. Empire of the Sun 14. The King of Masks 4. Secrets and Lies 5. Cinema Paradiso 5. Bastille 6. My Brother, My Sister, Sold for a Fistful of Lire 6. Superman- The Movie 7. Babette’s Feast 7. The Emerald Forest

8. Into the Arms of Stranger

8. Greystoke, The Legend of Tarzan 9. Frequency 9. The Joy Luck Club 10. The Keys to the Kingdom 10.The Ten Commandments

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Citizen Kane

Casa De Los Babies Coco

A Christmas Carol Come Back Little Sheba

A Little Princess Coming Home

Afterlife *Da

*Annie Emerald Forest

*Antwone Fisher *Empire of the Sun

*Austin Powers Goldmember *Evelyn

Babette's Feast *Ever After (Cinderella)

*Bambi *Flirting with Disaster

Bastille Frequency

*Big Daddy *Gosford Park

Blossons of the Dust Greystoke

*Catfish in Black Bean Sauce *Harry Potter

Central Station High Tide

Character Immediate Family

Cinderella Into the Arms of Strangers

Loosing Isaiah *Spider-Man

*Lovely and Amazing Star Wars

*Made In America Superman

*Mighty Aphrodite *The Cider House Rules

Miss Saigon *The Color Purple

My Brother, My Sister Sold for a The Joy Luck Club Fistful of Life The Keys to the Kingdom *Orphan Train The King of Masks Paper Moon The Miracle *Peter Pan The Nasty Girl *Pete's Dragon *The Official Story Pinocchio The Searchers Raising Vicror Vargas The Secret Garden Salmonberries The Spitfire Grill Say it isnt so The Ten Commandments *Second Best The Truman Show *Secrets & Lies The World is Not Enough *Slums of Beverly Hills

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Founder and CEO Riverside After Adoption Consulting and Training (AACT) Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training (PACT) @ Pavao Consulting and Coaching PH: (617) 547-0909 EMAIL: [email protected]; WEB: www.pavaoconsulting.com To Each His Own “protect” adoptees from the bastard label. One of the first Technicolor movies. Garson won her second *Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael Academy Award for her performance. Border Line-1991 TVM; Sherry *White Oleander Stringfield, Christopher Reid; An attorney who represents an international adoption agency in Los Widdow's Peak Angeles accidentally discovers a murder involving the agency. She then gets mixed up in an illegal operation Yours, Mine and Ours involving Asian mothers who are forced to give up their babies. Working with a private detective and an immigration Zelig officer she eventually finds the truth. Boulevard-1994; Kari Wuhrer , Rae Dawn Chong, Lou Diamond Philips; A young woman regularly beaten and tortured by her lover, gives birth and All She Ever Wanted-. immediately gives the child up for Anne of Green Gables- adoption. This sets her on an escape Baby Business from the lover on the streets of Toronto. The Baby Maker- Here she meets a hardened hooker who Baby M- takes her in so she won't be arrested for vagrancy. . A Child Lost Forever-1995 TVM; Bachelor Mother- Beverly D’Angelo; Birthmother searches . for her child and discovers the adoptive The Bad Seed-1956; mother murdered him years earlier. Batman Returns-1992; Michael Keaton, Interesting flashback to her life at a Danny Devito; An abandoned child reform school. Based on a true story. returns as an adult and searches for his Cradle of Conspiracy-1994 TVM; Danica parents. McKellar, Dee Wallace Stone, Kristin, The Bigamist-1953; Edmond O’Brien, daughter of upper middle class parents, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund can hardly stand the immense pressure Gwenn; Harry and Eve Graham are to fullfil her mother's dream of success trying to adopt a baby. The Big City- in sports and high school. In this tense 1948; Margaret O’Brien, Robert Preston, situation she gets emotional support by Danny Thomas, George Murphy; Kenny, who secretly plans to make her Maudlin drama has O’Brien adopted by pregnant and sell the baby for adoption. three men. After a true story. Black Market Baby-1977; Linda Purl; Ca-bau-kan-2002; Lola Amaria; A Desi Arnez Jr.; A pregnant college women from Holland returns to student fights a baby selling ring. Indonesia, the country of her roots. Blossoms in the Dust-1941; Greer When she was a little child she was given Garson, Walter Pidgeon; The Edna Mae up for adoption and now she is ready to Gladney Story on film; she is one of the discover the story of her life. She finds reasons adoption records were sealed, to out that the truth about both her parents

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Founder and CEO Riverside After Adoption Consulting and Training (AACT) Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training (PACT) @ Pavao Consulting and Coaching PH: (617) 547-0909 EMAIL: [email protected]; WEB: www.pavaoconsulting.com is very revealing, shocking at of his family, a boyhood pal, college times, but comes to terms with her past. friends, his pastor, Helms fans, Daddy and Papa-2002; A documentary community activists, novelists Lee written and directed by Johnny Symons; Smith and Allan Gurganus, a mayor Daddy & Papa explores the growing who's gay, and people in the street, phenomenon of gay fatherhood and its including a brief interview with Matthew impact on American culture. Through Shepard. What is it to judge, and what is the stories of four different families, it to love? Daddy & Papa delves into some of the Delinquent Parents-1938; Doris particular challenges facing gay men Weston, Maurice Murphy; Rich boy who decide to become dads. From marries poor girl. Poor girl gets surrogacy and interracial adoption, to pregnant. Rich boy's parents don't know the complexities of gay divorce, to the they're married, forbid him to see her battle for full legal status as parents, anymore. Rich boy dumps poor girl, poor Danielle Steel’s Mixed Blessings-1995 girl gives baby up for adoption. Rich boy TVM; Scott Baio, Alexandra Paul, Bruce and his family are happy, poor girl and Weitz; Three newly married couples her family are miserable. want to start a family. However, there Den Eneste ene-1999; Sidse Babitt are a few complications, for Brad & Knudesen, Niels Olsen; This romantic Pilar, it's time, not only are they both comedy follows two couples in very mature, Brad already has grown up Copenhagen trying to settle down. Søs, daughter and is about to have a baby of who works in a beauty clinic, tries to live her own. For Andy & Diana, it would be happily with her Italian husband. Soon difficult for her to conceive, so they after she tells him that she's pregnant, explore other options, like surrogacy she discovers that he's having an affair and adoption. And for Charlie and Beth, with one of her clients at the beauty it's the fact that he wants to be a father clinic. She kicks him out of the but she is not sure if she wants to. apartment just as their new kitchen Danielle Steel’s No Greater Love-1996 arrives. Niller, the kitchen installer, is a TVM; Kelly Rutherford, Chris Sarandon; down-to-earth kind of guy who lives a A young infant is put up for adoption childless, but otherwise happy life with after her parents went down with the Lizzie. They're busy preparing for a child Titanic in 1912. Nearly 50 years later, adoption, only one event will have a now a grown woman she looks for her huge impact on both their lives just as other siblings who she believed survived the newly adopted girl shows up from after the Titanic went down. Burkina Fasu. At the same time Niller Dear Jesse-1997; Can you go home falls head-over-heels in love with Søs. again? What if you're a gay man and The Divided Heart-1954; Cornell home is a state where voters keep Bouchers, Yvonne Mitchell; Yugoslavian electing a homophobe to the US Senate? woman finds that her child, lost during In 1996, at age 30, native son Tim World War II, has been adopted by a Kirkman returns to North Carolina to German family. explore the parallels and differences El Milagro de P. Tinto-1998; Luis Ciges, between himself and Jesse Helms: Silvia Casanova; Wafer factory-owner P. they're from the same town and college, Tinto and his wife Olivia want a child of with media interests, from families their own more than anything else in the blessed by adoptions, Baptists by world. Years of trying, however, have upbringing. Tim puts his camera in front left them with nothing but a pair of

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Founder and CEO Riverside After Adoption Consulting and Training (AACT) Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training (PACT) @ Pavao Consulting and Coaching PH: (617) 547-0909 EMAIL: [email protected]; WEB: www.pavaoconsulting.com extraterrestrial midgets leaving a letter explaining he's not her living in the spare bedroom. When they natural son, but the son of a Black decide to try adoption, a series of woman who died in childbirth; plus, he misroutings and chance encounters has a half brother Ray, in Chicago, she results in an escaped adult mental wants him to visit. Earl makes the trip, patient arriving at their door with initially receiving a cold welcome from adoption papers in hand. P. Tinto and Ray and Ray's son, Virgil. His birth Olivia accept this without question and mother's sister, Aunt T., an aged and welcome him in as their son. Can this blind matriarch, takes Earl in tow and family arrangement work? Strange but insists that the family open up to him. funny. Co-written by Billy Bob Thornton. Empire of the Sun-1989; Christian Bale, A Father for Brittany; AKA A Change John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson; of Heart-1998 Australia TVM; Andrew An aristocratic British youth is McCarthy, Michael Learned; Keith and separated from his family at the start of Kim Lussier are a childless couple who World War II after the Japanese Army are given custody of a 3-month-old foster invades British controlled areas of child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes China. Reduced to living on the street when Kim dies of cancer in the middle of and fighting for food, the youth is the adoption process, leaving Keith to eventually interned in a Japanese POW fight for Brittany's custody alone. camp for British civilians. Here, Flirting with Disaster-1995; Ben admiration quickly develops both for Stiller, Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal, captured American pilots and the Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin; Farce about an Japanese themselves. When the war adoptee searching for his birthmother. ends, the boy torn from everything he Follow Me, Boys-1966; Fred knew attempts to again find his parents. MacMurray, Vera Miles, Kurt Russell; Directed by Steven Spielberg. While not Disney vehicle about a Scout leader in a about adoption, it does cover separation small town. and loss in a child. Footballers Wives-2002 TV Series; Family Plot-1976; Karen Black, Bruce Drama series about the women married Dern; Fake medium Madam Blanche and to members of Earls Park football team. her taxi driver boyfriend make a living Ian gets offered a place on the first team, from her phony powers. They are hired while his wife Donna tries to track down by an aging widow, Julia Rainbird to find the son they gave up for adoption nine her nephew who was given away for years ago. adoption many years earlier following a For Keeps-1988; Molly Ringwald, John family scandal. Meanwhile, an Zarchen; Darcy and her long-term extremely clever couple are behind a boyfriend Stan are in their last months series of kidnappings in the San of school and already have found places Francisco area. The two couples path's in good colleges. Recently they started to cross and chaos results in Alfred sleep with each other and Darcy gets Hitchcock's last film. pregnant. Neither Darcy's mother, who A Family Thing-1996; Robert Duval, was left by her husband and had to bring James Earl Jones; Bowlegged cracker, up Darcy alone, nor Stan's Catholic Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment parents are very supportive and urge rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his them to have an abortion or give up for wife and kids and parents, and rarely adoption respectively. However Darcy's takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, and Stan's love is so intense, they could

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Founder and CEO Riverside After Adoption Consulting and Training (AACT) Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training (PACT) @ Pavao Consulting and Coaching PH: (617) 547-0909 EMAIL: [email protected]; WEB: www.pavaoconsulting.com imagine to have a baby, but her relinquished daughter. this would mean to give up their college Immediate Family-1989; Glen Close, carriers. James Fox; A wealthy, childless couple Frisco Jenny-1932; Ruth Chatterton, enters into an open adoption. Louis Calhern; Frisco Jenny was Jack Be Nimble-1993; Alexis Arquette, orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and Sarah Smuts Kennedy; Jack and Dora, fire and has become the madame of abandoned by their parents as babies, prosperous bawdy house. She puts her are desperate to find each other after son up for adoption and he rises to years of adoption. Jack's young life has prominence as district attorney been spent with a sadistic family. Dora, dedicated to closing down such houses. whose life has been somewhat better, When her underling proposes killing the has developed extra-sensory powers DA, she kills the underling and must face which tell her that Jack's in danger and execution. Directed by William Wellman. drives her to search for him. Gas Station Jesus-2001; Lori Heuring, Katts and Dog-1988-91 TV Clayne Crawford; When a young woman Series;Andrew Bednarski; "Katts and opts to abort a miraculous conception, a Dog", otherwise known as "Rin Tin Tin K- Christian Fundamentalist group 9 Cop", is about the life of Canine Officer intervenes. Duped into an adoption Hank Katts and his partner, Rinty; how scheme, Maggie agrees to carry the baby they fight crime and the forces of evil. It to term but gradually comes to suspect also shows the life of Hank's nephew, the entire arrangement. She ends up Steve; through the death of his mother marooned at a rural service station, and his adoption by Officer Katts. where she encounters a wise old radio preacher, Isaiah, and his reluctant Kiddie Kure-1940; George “ Spanky” prophet of a son, Manny, who end up McFarland. Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer, guiding her on the rest of her journey. Robert Blake; Rich 'Old Man' Morton is a It's not an easy journey, however, as hypochondriac. The doctor suggests to Maggie is stalked, chased and forced off Morton's wife that adopting a child the road. In a woodsy field, she comes might help cure Mr. Morton of his face to face with her assailants and delusions. Overhearing the herself, as she prepares to undergo a conversation, Morton invites the the Our painfully unorthodox delivery and yet Gang to lunch in order to sour his wife another unforeseen miracle... on children and adoption. Here Comes the Groom-1951; Bing The Lady is Willing-1942 Marlene Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith; Pete Dietrich, Fred MacMurray; Bold, Garvey, foreign correspondent, has been eccentric Broadway performer Lisa running an impromptu adoption agency Madden befuddles her handlers by for war orphans in Paris, when an coming home with a baby she picked up ultimatum from his erstwhile fiancée on the street. She wants to keep the baby draws him back to Boston, complete with but has to find a husband to make two adopted orphans to melt her heart. adoption viable. Why not her new Too late! She's now engaged and if Pete's obstetrician Dr. McBain? She offers him not married within five days, he loses help with his research on rabbits in the kids. Directed by Frank Capra. exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into High Tide-1987; Judy Davis, Jan Adele; a marriage of real love. When Dr. A birthmother is stranded in an McBain's ex-wife comes looking for Australian trailer park only to discover money, Lisa suspects something and

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Founder and CEO Riverside After Adoption Consulting and Training (AACT) Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training (PACT) @ Pavao Consulting and Coaching PH: (617) 547-0909 EMAIL: [email protected]; WEB: www.pavaoconsulting.com leaves New York. However, a daughter meets Joanna, a pregnant serious illness with the baby brings them teenager willing to give up her child for together again as McBain operates to try adoption, Marie is thrilled. And so and save the baby's life. Joanna moves in... Lazurus-1994; William Armstrong, Little Girl Lost-1988; Tess Harper, Karen Austin, Musa Luvuno; This Frederick Forrest unusual drama with a message, set in Little John-2002 TVM; Gloria Reubens, England and filmed entirely in English, Ving Rhames, Patty Duke; The concerns a wealthy British couple of unmarried daughter of a Texas rancher Polish descent who adopt a son because gives birth to an unwanted child. She they are unable to have children. puts the child up for adoption and moves However the illegal adoption process away from home. Without her they go through involves paying an knowledge, her father took the boy and exorbitant fee to an underground raised him. Twelve years later, she is broker, and the child they receive is not now a successful family-court judge in the Latin American infant promised, but L.A. Over the years, she has avoided her a strangely hardened 10-year-old from father and knows nothing of the child. Mozambique. Desperately disappointed That all changes when he decides that is with their "purchase," the new parents time she knew her own child and heads nonetheless make fumbling efforts to for L.A. However, he quickly finds that make the child Lazar feel at home. But she wants nothing to do with her father Lazar is not receptive, and behaves and cares little about the son she never more like a threatened and hunted knew. animal each day in his affluent Losing Isaiah-1995; Halle Berry; surroundings. In time, the couple are Jessica Lange; White adoptive mother able to communicate with the boy to and black birthmother fight over her discover that he saw his family die and abandoned child. was forced to accompany the army, The Lost Child-2000 TVM; Mercedes where along with other children he was Ruehl, Jamey Sheridan; A story about trained to execute prisoners in mass Rebecca, a woman who goes in search of killings. Lazar ultimately develops the her natural parents and in the process will to try to become a child again, but he finds her long lost family and her rich feels constantly endangered by the cultural heritage. Her adoption was wealthy new world around him. One day never kept a secret from her while she he runs away, stealing a weapon from grew up in a loving adoptive family. But his favorite new grandfather. When her circumstances are drastically police rounds up of him, it looks like the changed when her adoptive mother boy tries to defend himself passes away and her father's new wife Les Cigognes n’en font qu’a leaur tete- shows no interest in his child. Then, 1989; Marlene Jobert, Patrick Chesnais; years later, after her father dies, Married to Jeremie, Marie wants Rebecca decides to try to find the family desperately to have a child. She has a 20 her dad had described to her. In year old daughter from a former response to her search, she is contacted marriage with the police commissioner. by a woman on a Navajo reservation who When the gynecologist confirms they are is looking for her twin siblings who were unable to conceive a child together, they stolen from their mother soon after they opt for adoption. However, it is a very were born. The women soon realize that lengthy and difficult process. When her they are sisters and Rebecca is

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Founder and CEO Riverside After Adoption Consulting and Training (AACT) Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training (PACT) @ Pavao Consulting and Coaching PH: (617) 547-0909 EMAIL: [email protected]; WEB: www.pavaoconsulting.com welcomed with open arms on Bujold, Marthe Keller; Catherine, a a visit to the reservation. But when her concert pianist, is surprised one night by husband, Jack, comes to see them, the the arrival of her best friend from differences between the two cultures childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), rise to the surface, and Rebecca must whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. integrate the old and the new so that her Catherine and Max were Québec's most whole family can be together happily. promising young pianists in the mid- Made in China: The Story of Adopted 1960's when the adventurous Max gets Children from China-2000 TVM; pregnant. She wants to keep the child, Written and directed by Karin Lee. Made but her mother forces her to give him up in China tells the poignant stories of for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves adopted children from China, Québec and music. Now, years later, she predominantly girls, who live in three returns, obsessed with finding her son. distinct regions of Canada. Many of the She locates the adoption records, and children live with white families and face social services contacts her son to ask if the challenge of making sense of their he wants to see her. He refuses, but she identity and their roots at a very young keeps trying. Is a relationship with him age. We meet the children in their possible? And what about her musical homes, social settings and schools. They talent? explain how they deal with issues of My Own Private Idaho-1992; River race, racism, abandonment and Phoenix, Keanu Reeves; Two teenagers adoption, birth parents and whether search for the birthmother of one of they will return to China to search for them. their roots. Their stories reflect their Next of Kin-1984; Patrick Tierney; inner conflicts and how they have come Berge Fazlian; Twenty-three-year old to terms with their hybrid identities. Peter Foster is an only child who lives at Sometimes tough, sometimes vulnerable, home, where he constantly hears his the children reveal the joys and pain of parents arguing. Because Peter does living in a visibly adoptive family. nothing all day, the family goes to a Marvin and Tige-1983; John clinic where a therapist videotapes Cassavetes, Billy Dee Williams; Old man them. After Peter watches his tape, he and orphan are thrown together to find views the tape of a troubled Armenian the child’s birthfather. family, who gave their only son away for The Miracle-1991; Beverly D’Angelo, adoption when they arrived in Canada. Niall Byrne; Genetic Sexual Attraction Peter decides to visit this family, and he occurs when a male adoptee meets and pretends to be their son, Bedros Deryan. actress who turns out to be his The Deryan family welcomes him with birthmother. open arms, and Peter tries to patch up Mighty Aphrodite-1995; Woody Allen; the poor relationship between George Adoptive father searches for his child’s Deryan and his daughter Azah. prostitute birthmother. Niedzielne dzieci-1977 aka Sunday Mommie Dearest-1981; Faye Dunaway, Children-Polish; Ryszard Kotys, Zofia Diana Scarwid; The adopted family life of Tomaszewska-Graziewicz; A middle-aged Joan Crawford; several of her adopted pair of newlyweds is still without a child children where stolen by the Tennessee after two years of marriage. It's an Children’s Home (See Stolen Babies). embarassment so they decide to adopt a Remember, NO WIRE HANGARS! child. This takes time, however, and they cannot wait. The solution is to fake a Mon Amie Max-1994; Genevieve

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Founder and CEO Riverside After Adoption Consulting and Training (AACT) Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training (PACT) @ Pavao Consulting and Coaching PH: (617) 547-0909 EMAIL: [email protected]; WEB: www.pavaoconsulting.com pregnancy and make a deal John Morell, a famous English with a young girl expecting an philosopher and amateur musician and illegitimate child, who in turn does not his wife Catherine, becomes friendly want give the baby up to the adoption with young Guido, and Morell discovers home. The deal is made, pregnancy the boy has an extraordinary instinct for faked and then the middle aged wife orchestration and a phenomenal music suddenly finds herself pregnant. Now memory. A neighboring couple, Signor the deal is off and the young expecting and Signora Boudini become aware of mother is facing a new decision. She the boy's talents, and she appeals to his does keep the baby in the end. parents to let her educate him musically. Nobody’s Fool-1986; Rosanna Arquette, Torn by their love for their son and, they Eric Roberts; A young birthmother tries feel,the duty to let the world hear his to make the best of her life after talent, they consent. The boy is tutored relinquishment. by Dr. Lorenzo, Signora Bondini denies Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit-1991, the boy all contact with his parents and BBC TVM; An adopted girl, raised by everyone else except her. She also has religious fanatics, realizes she is a neither sent his letters to his family, nor lesbian. let him see the ones they've sent to him. He becomes phenomenally successful Orphan Train-1979, TVM; Jill and makes the grand tour of Europe as Eikenberry; Kevin Dobson; Glenn Close; Signora Bondini is enraptured by the Above average treatment of Dorothea acclaim given her through her Petrie’s novel about the trains that transported New York City street "discovery" of the boy. She prepares to take him to America and also prepares urchins into the American West. adoption papers. The Other Mother-1995; Frances Problem Child & Problem Child 2- Fisher; Well done adaptation of Carol Schaeffer’s book about her 1990/91; John Ritter; Awful pair of films relinquishment and subsequent search. about troublesome adoptees. Also Highly recommended. reported but unseen: Problem Child 3, a 1995 TVM. Our Son, the Matchmaker-1996; David Andrews, Avis-Marie Barnes, Ellen Room for One More-1952; Cary Grant; Burstyn; As seen in flashback, this is the Family of five adopts a little girl. AKA story of 43-year-old Julie a beautician as The Easy Way; later a TV series. who when 15 was forced by her mother Samantha-1993; Martha Plimpton; to give up her baby for adoption. Her Hector Elizondo; Quirky comedy-drama son, now 28, a minister, with his wife about an adoptee’s search after she’s expecting, begins to search for his told she is adopted on her 21st birthday. biological mother to find out his family Not for all tastes; the reunion is very medical history. She hears of his search strange! and reunites. The Search-1948; Montgomery Clift; Penny Serenade-1941; Cary Grant, American GI in post-WW2 Europe helps Irene Dunne; Courtship, marriage, and a boy find his mother. the loss of two children, one who was Second Best-1994; William Hurt; adopted, is recollected by a divorcing Lonely, middle-aged man in England women. adopts a lonely teen. Tremendous Prelude to Fame-1950; Robin Dowell, performance by William Hurt as the Guy Rolfe, Jeremy Spenser, While adoptive single father. vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell, son of Secrets and Lies-1996; Marianne Jean

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Founder and CEO Riverside After Adoption Consulting and Training (AACT) Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training (PACT) @ Pavao Consulting and Coaching PH: (617) 547-0909 EMAIL: [email protected]; WEB: www.pavaoconsulting.com Baptiste; Successful black a witch doctor. On the way back to town woman traces her birth mother to a he is attacked by some of the sheriff's lower-class white woman, who denies it; men who try to kill him. They leave him emotions run high as everyone's secrets for dead, but he is rescued. He then are exposed. decides to perform an Indian ritual Seetha & Carole-1998; Beata Van where he hallucinates or has visions to Berkom, Archana; This is the story of a try to identify why he was attacked. He tug of war between two women, one has visions and discovers the reason he Canadian, the other East Indian, over was given up for adoption was because the same child. A Canadian woman, who his father was the local sheriff. He didn't has suffered two miscarriages, decides love the birthmother and ordered her to to adopt a child in India. The child she give him up for adoption... selects was sold to an adoption agency Soapdish-1991; Sally Fields, Kevin by his impoverished father who hopes Kline; Genetic Sexual Attraction occurs adopted parents will give the child a on a soap opera set between a better life in America. The problem is birthfather and a daughter he is that the child's mother knows nothing of unaware of. the plan. When she does find out, she Star Wars -Episode 4; A New Hope- wants the child back. 1977, Episode 5; The Empire Strikes The Shipping News-2001; Kevin Back-1980, Episode 6; Return of the Spacey, Julianna Moore; An inksetter in Jedi-1983; Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, New York, Quoyle returns to his family's Harrison Ford, Sir Alec Guiness; Trilogy longtime home, a small fishing town in of films about two adoptees searching for Newfoundland, with his young daughter, their birthfather. Luckily, not all after a traumatizing experience with her birthfathers turn out to be Darth Vader. mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal Stolen Babies-1993 TVM; Lea adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had Thompson, Mary Tyler Moore; Social little success thus far in life, his shipping worker exposes the Tennessee news column in the newspaper "The Children’s Home Scandal. MTM is almost Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his unrecognizable as Georgette Tanner; a experiences in the town change his life. long way from Laura Petrie. Sioux City aka Ultimate Revenge-1994; Stranger Who Looks Like Me-1974 Lou Diamond Phillips directs and plays TVM; Beau Bridges, Meridith Baxter the role of a doctor who gets suspended Birney, Whitney Blake; The first TV on his birthday. At his adopted parents movie about adoptees searching. Watch home, he has a party at which one of the for Patrick Duffy in the support group. gifts is an American Indian necklace Blake and Birney, who play the with a note from his birth mother who birthmother and adoptee, are real-life he has not heard from since he was mother and daughter. given up for adoption when he was very Superman-1978; Christopher Reeve, young. In the note she wishes to see him. Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando; The So he leaves to visit her only to arrive a first interplanetary adoption. few days after her death. He visits the local sheriff because he is curious of the Tatsulok-1998; Amanda Page, Elizabeth circumstances of his mother's death. He Oropesa; Minda, in her forties, is having then heads out to the reservation in a torrid affair with the younger Dave, search of any relatives he may have. He and is trying to hide it from her husband runs into his grandfather who is kind of Chito. One day Stephanie, a Philippino- American who came to the Philippines

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Founder and CEO Riverside After Adoption Consulting and Training (AACT) Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training (PACT) @ Pavao Consulting and Coaching PH: (617) 547-0909 EMAIL: [email protected]; WEB: www.pavaoconsulting.com on a cultural discovery tour, on his birthday, three women begin to turns up at Minda's house claiming she ponder if it's the son each gave up for is her daughter, whom she gave away for adoption. As the three await news of his adoption twenty years earlier. Stephanie rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall has questions about her adoption that incidents from five years earlier and Minda is unwilling to answer. why they were forced to give up their The Ten Commandments-1956; son. Remade as a TV movie with Jacyln Charleton Heston, Yul Brynner; Adoptee Smith and Tyne Daly in 1999. searches for his past and leads his Thursday-1998; Thomas Jane; A former people to freedom. L.A. drug dealer has moved to Houston Terror in the Shadows-1995 TVM; to make a new life for himself as a Marcy Walker; Five years ago, Christine married architect. Everything falls apart went after the baby she gave up for when he is suddenly visited by one of his adoption, claiming he'd been stolen, and former cohorts who comes carrying wound up killing Alex Williams' wife and heroin. Discovering the dope, the the baby the Williams' had adopted. Now, architect flushes it down the drain. Alex has remarried to a woman with a Michael Jeter also appears as a young son and when Christine escapes psychologist from an adoption agency from a mental institution, she heads where the couple is seeking to adopt a straight for Alex, looking for revenge. child. Their Second Chance aka The The Tie That Binds-1995; Darryl Keller/Keller Story -1997 TVM; Hannah, Keith Carradine, Moira Kelly, Lindsay Wagner, Perry King, Tracy Vincent Spano; John and his wife Leann Griffith; Twenty eight years ago, Barbara are fugitives who are both wanted for and Larry were college lovers and Laurie murder. They have a young daughter was conceived. They were unmarried, named Janie. John and Leann are in the young and afraid and decided to put her process of robbing a house when the two up for adoption. She now returns to their residents of the house show up. John lives and through persistence, re-unites kills the two residents and heads back to them. the car with Leann - only to discover the Thief-1981; James Caan, Tuesday Weld; police waiting for them. John and Leann A highly skilled jewel thief operates a get away after a cop shoots John, and restaraunt and a car dealership as Janie is placed up for adoption. Janie is covers for his illicitly-gained income. He soon adopted by southern California falls for a woman he meets out on the carpenter Russell Clifton and his wife town and gets hired by the local Dana - and what they don't know is that godfather to pull a few heists. In return, they're in for the fight of their lives. the mob arranges a steady flow of cash John and Leann are trying to locate and a black-market adoption for Frank Janie and will stop at nothing to find and his girlfriend. When Frank tries to her, even if it means killing whoever is quit the mob, various bad things happen in their way. to illustrate the point that he can't quit. To Each His Own-1946; Olivia Three Secrets-1949; Eleanor Parker, DeHaviland, John Lund; During World Patricia Neal; A five-year-old boy is the War 1, small-town girl Josephine Norris sole survivor of a devastating plane has an illegitimate son by an itinerant crash in the mountains of California. pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends When the newspapers reveal the boy up giving him to another family, she was adopted and that the crash occurred devotes her life to loving him from afar.

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Founder and CEO Riverside After Adoption Consulting and Training (AACT) Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training (PACT) @ Pavao Consulting and Coaching PH: (617) 547-0909 EMAIL: [email protected]; WEB: www.pavaoconsulting.com To Find My Son-1980 TVM; Then, Irish tenants upstairs refuse to Richard Thomas, Steve Kanaly; Single move and won't pay rent; plus, the man experiences difficulty when he tries woman upstairs is about to have a baby. to adopt an 8 year-old boy. The next problem is the baby: once he's Track 29-1988; Christopher Lloyd, Gary born, it's clear his father was Black. The Oldman, Theresa Russell; A doctor's wife Irish guy splits; Buddy evicts mother tires of his obsession with model trains, and child, then feels guilt and sets her up and spends her days wondering about in a flat while she sorts out an adoption. the son she gave up for adoption at birth. Estelle's lack of faith, the Irish lass's While eating at a roadside cafe, she spirit, Buddy's dream, racial prejudice, encounters a British hitchhiker, who and the baby's fate play out. turns out to be her son. They spend time Women in Hiding-1940; Marsha Hunt; together trying to find a bond. The son This Crime Does Not Pay series 22 begins to hate the husband, and the wife minute short focuses on unwed mothers, begins worrying about the safety of her specifically those who believe that they husband. cannot confide in anyone and, therefore, The Tunnel of Love-1958; Doris Day, go to clinics run by people more Gig Young, Richard Widmark; Comedy interested in profit than proper medical about a married couple trying to adopt a care. In this dramatization, women pay child. Somewhat far-fetched, it was $500 to enter a clinic and must sign directed by Gene Kelly. papers in which they agree to give up Twins-1988; Arnold Schwartzenegger, their babies for adoption. Childless Danny DeVito; Julius and Vincent couples then pay the clinic operators Benedict are the results of an $500 to adopt the children. experiment that would allow for the White Banners-1938; Claude Rains, Fay perfect child. Julius was planned and Bainter, Jackie Cooper; A homeless grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is woman named Hannah drifts into the an accident and is somewhat smaller in lives of the kindly Ward family, in a stature. Vincent is placed in an small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah orphanage while Julius is taken to a makes herself useful as a cook and south seas island and raised by housekeeper and stays with the Wards... philosophers. Vincent becomes the but her real interest is in meeting their ultimate low life and is about to be killed neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It by loan sharks when Julius discovers turns out that Peter is the son she bore that he has a brother and begins looking out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, for him. Together, they search for their and now Hannah has returned to town to birthmother. I loved it when Arnold see what sort of young man her son has confronts the doctor that caused it all; become. “If you’re lying to me, I’ll be back.” Later, Wong Fei-hung ji yi: Naam yi dong ji the birthmother punches out the doctor. keung-1992; Martial arts expert Wong Two Family House-2000; Michael Fei-Hung faces Kung, a mercenary rival Rispodi, Kelly Macdonald; An unseen with skills to equal his own. In addition, narrator looks back to 1956, on Staten Canton is convulsed by a struggle Island, when Buddy, an Italian guy with between the local representatives of the big dreams, buys a house planning to Chinese government and Europeans who live upstairs with his wife Estelle and want to control China, and Wong ends up run a bar downstairs. The first problem in the middle of this fight. He is again is Estelle's lack of confidence in Buddy. assisted by young Chung, and again