何以为家
What Makes a Family
Release: 2001-01-22
·Runtime: 120m
·★ 6.2
剧情
电视电影
一直不敢承认自己性向的詹妮,遇见了磊落而勇敢的桑德拉,由她感染也鼓足勇气,坦然承认自己的特别。两人随后步入婚姻殿堂,桑德拉也经人工受孕诞下了可爱乖巧的女儿。但因她们生活的佛罗里达州法律禁止同性恋婚姻和同性恋领养孩子,无论是伴侣关系还是监护关系都并不合法。当桑德拉重病去世,詹妮不得不为了争取女儿的抚养权与其公公婆婆法庭相见。这次不只是为自己,而是为一个生在特别家庭的孩子争取任何孩子都有的回家的权利。“家到底是什么”—这个她往日选择忽视的问题—终于避无可避地横在眼前:因她性向把她排除在外的亲生父母是家人吗?在爱人养病期间对自己关怀备至、在爱人逝去后便对自己翻脸不认、唯恐她的性向带坏孙女的公婆,是家人吗?和自己并无血缘关系联结,但情深如母女的女儿,是家人吗?
Production Countries
Canada
United States of America
Production Companies
Lifetime
Barwood Films
Columbia TriStar Television
Storyline Entertainment
Cast
Tony Devon
as Gene
琥碧·戈柏
as Terry Harrison
Dean McDermott
as O'Brien
Jordy Benattar
as Heather Cataldi
Philip Williams
as Martin Crane
Dawn Greenhalgh
as Dr. Gage
崔莉·瓊斯
as Sandy Cataldi
Anne Meara
as Evelyn Cataldi
Melanie Nicholls-King
as Nora
Richard Fitzpatrick
as Michael
Al Waxman
as Frank Cataldi
Sean McCann
as Judge Black
Cayle Chernin
as ICU Nurse
Joyce Gordon
as Tanned Woman
Andrew Moodie
as ICU Nurse Cecil
Brooke Shields
as Janine Nielssen
Roberta Maxwell
as Claire
Jayne Eastwood
as Judge Shales
Stewart Arnott
as Peter
George Buza
as Reverend Greg Wasney
Roger Dunn
as Professor