Els pares de l'Annie la van abandonar quan era molt petita en un restaurant, i ara viu en una casa d'acollida amb quatre nenes més que estan en la mateixa situació, sota la custòdia de Coleen Hannigan, una ex-estrella del rock frustrada que els fa la vida impossible. L'Annie sempre ha tingut la il·lusió de trobar els seus pares biològics, però tot canvia el dia que ensopega literalment amb William Stacks, un multimilionari infeliç en plena campanya per convertir-se en alcalde de Nova York. De la nit al dia, l'Annie passa a ser el centre de la campanya política d'en William i, de mica en mica, també comença a ser una part molt important de la seva vida.
Chucky is reconstructed by a toy factory to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the doll, and tracks young Andy Barclay to a foster home where the chase begins again.
França. 2018. El Theo acaba de néixer i la seva mare biològica l'entrega a un programa d'adopció que haurà de trobar la que serà la seva nova família. D'altra banda, l'Alice porta gairebé deu anys lluitant per ser mare. Un grup de professionals faran que el Theo i l'Alice puguin reunir-se.
Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her? When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning to stick around. But cheerful, affectionate Maime Trotter isn’t giving up on Gilly just yet...
A monster from a little girl's nightmares comes to life and attacks anyone who would harm her.
Grace és una jove de vint anys que treballa com a supervisora a Short Term 12, un centre d'acollida per a adolescents en situació de vulnerabilitat. Li encanta la seva feina i està lliurada a cura dels xavals, però alhora es debat amb el seu propi passat conflictiu. Quan ingressa al centre una noia intel·ligent i inquieta anomenada Jayden, Grace s'adona que no pot continuar donant l'esquena als problemes que arrossega des de la seva infantesa.
Fresh out of foster care at age 18, a young drifter turns to petty crime to survive, and discovers an impossible love in an unlikely friend.
Poppy (Grant) i Anna Rose (Drake) viuen feliços amb els seus tres fills. Però Anna és tan maternal que vol tenir més fills; així que adopten dos nens: una nena de tretze anys i un noi analfabet que té problemes per caminar. Al principi, la situació és dura, però lluitaran per sobreposar-se a les adversitats.
A dedicated social worker organizes a train trip for a group of slum orphans in 1894, taking them from New York City to the Midwest in search of new families and new lives.
Samantha has lived her whole life in different foster homes. Now living in a small town, she never feels like she quite fits in, even with her own current foster family who might adopt her, or the boy who follows her around doing her classwork. So, it’s perhaps natural that she doesn’t know what to do with a curious tagalong little sister named Olivia. One day, Sam callously ditches Olivia, who wanders off into the woods on her own and disappears.
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arthur, "the worst kid in town", who moves cars away from fiire-plugs without the knowledge of the owners. The judge gives Arthur and friend Nutty another chance. However they run into further trouble when they break into Mr. Doray's drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. Mr. Doray is not sympathetic and completely against his wife's plan to become Arthur's guardian. More incidents occur with Mr. Doray quick to judge prior to getting all of the facts. Mrs. Doray must choose between her marriage and Arthur.
Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow her struggle to cope with the system; her only saving being her self-belief and certainty that she is being watched over and protected by the holy spirit.
You don't choose your family. You choose your friends. Vegas is the story of Thomas, Marianne and Terje - three teenagers with nowhere to go.
An adopted boy who, as a taciturn adult, visits his birth mother and strikes up a relationship fraught with tension and emotion.
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.
A precocious child has a profound effect on the lives of a successful Broadway producer and her husband.
Cathy, 6, is taken by a social worker to a foster home in the countryside, where she slowly gets used to the strict rules imposed by her foster mother Réjeanne. Fortunately, her foster father, Reynald, is kind and gentle with the girl and patiently helps her break through her shell. Kayla, 12, is sent to a group home where she gets to know Morgane, a rebellious teenager who’s planning to run away. At about the same time, Manu is released from the system on the day she turns 18, but she finds it difficult to adjust to her solitary existence outside of the system. All four meet up at a reception honoring a foster family with whom they’ve all previously lived.
The arrival of a beautiful new stranger in town prompts two boys to spend their summer holidays enticing the young woman to act in a short-film. However their motivation is purely that of seeing her naked.
In writer/director Paolo Rotondo’s debut feature, three teenagers on the run break into a deluxe Waiheke Island home and find themselves caught in a tense psychodrama with the conflicted owner.
A determined teenager must rely on her own wits when her fractured family abandons her.