Les enfants perdus

I don't usually like "sappy" movies, but this one really captured my heart. Kimberlee Peterson's performance as Dicey is phenomenal!! I felt her pain and despair in every facial expression!! I hope she is still working in film.....it would be a shame to waste all that talent!

Anne Bancroft gave a superior performance as the grandmother of 4 abandoned grandchildren who come to her home out of desperation.

Left alone in a car, the children make their way to a great aunt only to find that she has died and has left a daughter, Bonnie Bedelia as the quintessential spinster, a devout Catholic, who attends mass regularly but who will not keep the 2 boys in her home. Bedelia, in a brief role, captures the heart and sole of this woman brilliantly. Others may find her performance somewhat comic in nature. She carries herself as Ruth Buzzi did on the TV hit Laugh-In.

It is Bancroft who depicts a mean, vicious grandma who is gradually soothed by grandchildren desperate for a family life and desperate for love.

Finally admitting that she wants them but can't afford them financially or to fail them as she did her children, her last minute change of heart (though expected) at the bus stop is heartwarming.

A wonderful film describing family values and dysfunctionalism.

I read the book in the beginning of the year, because a teacher recommended it to me. Later in the year we watched this in class. Wow all the people really looked like i thought they would. It was an amazing movie. But they edited out some good parts.

My husband and I just saw this movie. It was heartwarming and sad at times. I loved Anne Bancroft. I never knew too much about her as an actress, but after seeing this movie, I can't help but say that she is a very good actress and knows how to draw you into a movie. The story was great and very well done by the kids. The little boy had this face that would just make you melt. I couldn't get enough of the movie, I didn't want it to end. All the children were fantastic actors, and I believe they felt the parts they played. It's a movie I could watch over and over again. I'm so happy they picked Anne Bancroft to play the part she did. I don't think anyone could have done that part any better or as good. It was a very good movie all around. Love it!!

Even though she gets first billing, you're going to have a long wait before Anne Bancroft shows up in Homecoming. When she does, of course it's worth it. She plays the grandmother of a group of abandoned children, and it takes a while for the children to find her.

Kimberlee Peterson, Trevor O'Brien, William Greenblatt, and Hanna Hall are left by their wayward mother in a parking lot, and they show an enormous amount of resilience as they walk miles and miles in search of a relative to take them in. At first, they try to survive for a couple of days while they wait for their mother to come back, but when they realize the truth, Kimberlee has to act as mother, father, and guide to her younger siblings. She leads them across state lines on foot, does odd jobs at gas station mini-marts so they can afford a carton of milk, and uses abandoned houses' backyards for safe shelter. It's truly remarkable, and it's also a true testament to Hallmark's clean standards that nothing bad ever happened to them on their journey! That's the wonderful thing about watching a Hallmark movie: you know no one's going to harm those kids.

When they finally reach Anne Bancroft, you'll get to see the most beautiful vegetable garden on the planet. I wanted to crawl right into the television and help them pick, pickle, and can cucumbers! Anne is a crusty, cranky old lady on a farm who stays as much of a hermit as she can, and she certainly doesn't have room in her life for four children. But since this is a Hallmark movie, do you think everyone will bond and learn to love each other? If you don't know the answer to that question, you obviously haven't seen enough Hallmark movies. This one's pretty cute, especially because the story's interesting. Plus, Anne has a great feathery hairdo!