Lifemark

Wonderful movie! It is an inspiring true story about adoption and what it means to truly adopt someone into a family:) highly recommend it to families, couples, and groups! I would recommend it to anyone who would want to be encouraged in the times of family struggle with adoption and not knowing what choice to make. It can change your life! God works in big ways and He cannot be stopped! This film delivers a powerful message about pro-life and how every life matters and children are a gift from God:) Adoption is very powerful, and this movie explains why adoption is powerful in that way! Every child deserves a chance to live and should be cherished and loved:)

Poorly written. Emotional moments use cheesy royalty free inspirational/sad music, characters don't have any depth. To put it kindly, the acting is subpar and the dialogue is just awkward. Movie falls into countless poorly-executed clichés. One of the worst writing issues I noticed was how characters didn't evolve throughout the entire movie. Movie was so excellent it could have been directed by Donald Trump.

Here's my satirical review: Beautiful film that loves mentioning how god was responsible for every thing down to a character speaking. What an amazing film, I loved it so much hearing about church and god. It was just so inspirational.

The plot of this film has been done a few dozen times before. Sometimes, the subject matter has been handled sensitively, and most other times the subject matter was handled shabbily. The old story of the birth mother wanting to reunite with the child who has been adopted can easily fall into the cornball acting syndrome. Fortunately for this film and its actors, it does not. The script is intelligent, the actors are believable, and the situation is handled in a sensitive manner. All of these good variables make this an easy decision to recommend this film to the public. The only reservation I have about the film is its overreliance on religion.

PROS

+ Great production quality and great actors.

+ The movie is very great in removing many psychological barriers. This implies the barrier for reconciliation after a very long time and distance, and especially to consider adoption instead of murder.

+ No problematic language or violence.

CONS

• A mix between superficiality, matched clothing styles and super-emotionalism.

• While the movie is very pleasant to watch and carries a very great message, it is far away from the Good Message of IESOUS CHRISTOS.

We can certainly all agree that adoption is a considerable alternative, but have to ask ourselves if this is the plan A of the Bible, especially given the fact of its complete absence from it. Yes, it is true that not everything is stipulated in the Bible, but could we come to the same quintessence of the movie, specifically of David's advise to his sister, to simply think it over again based on his example?

This culmination of the movie in this worldly advise is problematic. It is one thing what David experienced in the past, but a whole other thing what he now makes out of that knowledge. He presented his sister literally the Good Message of his upbringing, but how much more important would it have been to present her not just a plan B, but the Good Message of IESOUS CHRISTOS, which would include to first follow Him instead of her brother?

Without CHRISTOS she might eventually make the right decision, but it would rather be a product of chance if this would not result in a mother-child relationship, but also father-mother-child family.

What is presented here is beautiful, but if such an extreme situation of life is not being used in order to present the Good Message, then where should THEOS be allowed to work? This is the very tragic failure of the movie. It presented a plan B and laid it wonderfully out, but apart from some Christian undertones, the movie never proposed the wonderful plan A anywhere.

• The credits include the following:

St. Luke Methodist Church

St. Mark United Methodist Church

Grace Presbyterian Highland Community Church (Calvinist)

Focus on the Family

March for Life.

This movie won't be pulling in any acting awards in the near or far future but for a lazy day of mindless tv watching it was fine, even heartwarming. That is until its alternative motives were made clear. I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention to see where it was going. The end got super preachy with an anti-abortion chaser that discussed none of the nuances that may come into play when women make the decision to abort. As a woman and an adoptee I was low-key offended by the simplistic adoption vs abortion binary they drew in this movie.

The last quarter of the movie was disappointing and infuriating in turns which colored my overall perspective in a negative way.