Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild), nominalizată la premiul Oscar, joacă rolul lui Annie, un copil părăsit de părinți, care se luptă să-și croiască un drum în viața dură de pe străzile New York-ului, în anul 2014. Când era mică, ea a fost lăsată de către părinți în grija lui Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz), o asistentă maternală rea și lacomă, sub promisiunea că vor reveni s-o ia înapoi într-o bună zi. Dar soarta copilei se va schimba când bogatul candidat la primăria New York-ului, Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) - sfătuit de adjuncta sa, Grace (Rose Byrne) și de șmecherul său șef de campanie, Guy (Bobby Cannavale) - recurge la o stratagemă electorală, luând-o în grijă pe mica "orfană". Stacks consideră că este îngerul ei păzitor, dar firea pozitivă a lui Annie și încrederea sa în ziua de mâine ar putea să schimbe rolurile lor exact pe dos.
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.
A monster from a little girl's nightmares comes to life and attacks anyone who would harm her.
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...
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
Théo este dat la adopție de mama sa biologică chiar în ziua în care se naște. După această naștere anonimă, mama are două luni pentru a-și schimba părerea ... sau nu. Acum, viitorul său incert se află în mâinile sistemului de asistență socială și al părintelui său de îngrijire temporară Jean. Familiile de asistență medicală nu sunt, de asemenea, nimic nou pentru Jean în sine. El primește sarcina de a avea grijă de Théo în timp ce centrul de adopție caută o familie potrivită pentru el. Alice nu poate avea copii, dar nu a renunțat niciodată la dorința de a fi mamă. După multe neplăceri, acum este gata să adopte un copil.
Filmul e un portret plin de pasiune al tinereții, iar acțiunea se petrece în Waco, Texas. Forțat afară din orfelinat la 18 ani, Richie Wincott se lovește de pericolele și tentațiile vieții. După ce devine suspectul principal într-un jaf eșuat, el descoperă o dragoste imposibilă.
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.
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.
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.
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.
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 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.
A wealthy professional gay couple, who wish to adopt children, see their lives turned topsy turvy when they take in two misbehaving brothers.
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.
Julia always said that her upbringing as a biological child in a foster family was a happy time. But something is wrong. In The Foster Family, we follow director Julia's journey back in time, where she, together with her parents Ewa and Lennart and the foster child Patrik, recollect the shocking events that changed their lives over thirty years ago. The children are at the center of this strong, touching and warm documentary about a system where you can love, but not too much.
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.
A determined teenager must rely on her own wits when her fractured family abandons her.
The story of Daniel, an 11 year-old victim of the foster system, and his last chance at finding a family.