Review of Losing Isaiah

I really had no interest in seeing this picture, but I actually had a friend who was in a similar situation. Specifically, she adopted a bi-racial boy, and right before the adoption was "official," the birth father came out of the woodwork with HIS mother saying that they wanted to have him back. Originally, he denied paternity, so he never signed off on the adoption. She kept her adopted boy at the end, but my heart went out to her at the time. The plot of "Losing Isaiah" is of course a little bit different, but it deals with the same emotional issue of having a child that you are raising ripped away from you to be with the biological parent. This of course raises lots of interesting questions, such as, "what defines being a parent?" So because of my own personal experiences, I found the movie very moving and upsetting and I cried at the very end. So I guess the film "worked" for me. That being said, I'm not sure this situation could ever happen in real life. In real life, would Halle Berry's character EVER have had a chance of finding her baby years after she abandoned him in a crack-induced haze? Seems pretty doubtful to me.