Jessica Lange
Margaret Lewin
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Plot. While craving her next hit, Khaila Richards ( Halle Berry ), an African-American crack cocaine addict, abandons her inconsolable, illegitimate infant son, Isaiah, in the dumpster. She promises to come back for him later, but then she passes out from the drugs.
Mar 17, 1995 · "Losing Isaiah," inspired by various actual cases, tells the story of a cocaine-addicted black woman named Khaila ( Halle Berry) who, in a drugged haze, stumbles out of a crack house and abandons her son in a cardboard box in an alley.
Mar 27, 2015 · Losing Isaiah: The White Savior Trope 20 Years Later. As Losing Isaiah turns twenty, Sarah Kurchak takes a look back at the film’s many missed opportunities to address crucial issues of race.
Mar 23, 1995 · IN the new film "Losing Isaiah," a black lawyer representing a black mother who has abandoned her infant son argues in court that the child should be taken from his white adoptive...
Is “Losing Isaiah” based on a true story? No, “Losing Isaiah” is a work of fiction. However, it draws inspiration from real-life situations faced by birth mothers and adoptive parents.
Sep 17, 1995 · “Losing Isaiah,” starring Jessica Lange and Halle Berry, tells the story of a white social worker who adopts a black baby believed to have been abandoned by his drug-abusing mother. Four...
Mar 17, 1995 · Losing Isaiah: Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal. With Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn, Cuba Gooding Jr.. The biological and adoptive mothers of a young boy are involved in a bitter, controversial custody battle.
