Adoption, Surrogate, Sperm Donor & Birth Parents or Family Predicaments, Dilemmas
someone changes mind, wants to know, seeks or finds truth, including hospital mix-ups - biological v emotional/psychological as custodial parent
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- DirectorJames BridgesStarsBarbara HersheyCollin Wilcox PaxtonSam GroomAfter Tish Gray gives up her baby for adoption, she is contacted by a childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to conceive. She accepts the offer, but finds that getting to know the couple and developing a relationship with them for the entire pregnancy complicates the simple arrangement.
- DirectorLarry PeerceStarsMeredith BaxterBeau BridgesWalter BrookeA young woman who is looking for the birth parents who gave her up hooks up with a young man who has also been adopted and is looking for his birth parents.
- DirectorDon CarmodyStarsArt HindleCarole LaureShannon TweedStuck in a sexless marriage, a frustrated well-to-do couple agrees to see a female sex therapist. Unfortunately, she only helps escalate the tensions between them. Meanwhile, the police are baffled by a string of brutal nightly killings.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsLindsay WagnerChris SarandonMichael LernerFact-based story about an unwed teen (Nancy McKeon) who fought a major court battle to recover her infant daughter from adoptive parents (Lindsay Wagner, Chris Sarandon).
- DirectorArthur Allan SeidelmanStarsBill BixbyDee WallaceMegan FollowsWhen widower David marries divorcee Vicki, David's teenage son, Tim and Vicki's teenage daughter, Jenny become romantically involved. This makes David and Vicki VERY uncomfortable and Vicki's ex-husband Andy furious.
- StarsJoBeth WilliamsJohn SheaBruce WeitzA childless couple enlists the help of a woman to be their surrogate for their first child. What ensues changes their lives and laws of surrogacy.
- DirectorJim AbrahamsStarsBette MidlerLily TomlinFred WardTwo couples of sisters from New York and from the countryside discover that they are connected in an incredible way.
- DirectorJonathan KaplanStarsGlenn CloseJames WoodsMary Stuart MastersonAn upscale couple unable to conceive arrange a brokered adoption with a pregnant woman who doesn't hold up her end of the deal to give up the baby.
- StarsBonnie BedeliaBrian KerwinJohn M. JacksonThis is the story of two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later, when one of the girls dies, tests reveal that she was not the child of the couple who raised her.
- DirectorClaudia WeillStarsBeverly D'AngeloDana IveyMichael McGradyIn the 1970's, a teenager staying in an unwed mothers' institution is forced to give up her baby. Eighteen years later, she discovers that her child is dead, and that he was possibly murdered by his religiously -strict adoptive mom.
- DirectorMichael MillerStarsJohn RitterPolly DraperKevin KilnerAdrian is a successful woman left by her husband when she gets pregnant. Her life is a mess until she meets Bill. Together with his children they can create a new family, if Adrian can forget her ex husband and the father of her child.
- DirectorRichard BenjaminStarsWhoopi GoldbergTed DansonWill SmithA young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that weren't bad enough, he's white.
- DirectorJorge MontesiStarsMichele GreeneConor O'FarrellStephen MachtHaving raised many children already, a woman wholly devoted to pregnancy decides to become a surrogate for a wealthy couple, but when she discovers that she'll have twins, the couple wants them put up for adoption.
- DirectorPaul SchneiderStarsKate JacksonLori LoughlinEriq La SalleWoman who can't have child of her own fakes a pregnancy to hold on to boyfriend who's away traveling. When it comes time to deliver, she murders a pregnant woman and surgicaly removes the baby by cesarean.
- DirectorArlene SanfordStarsMelissa GilbertShanna ReedTom VericaMarried couples unable to conceive are thrilled to find they are going to become parents, thanks to a larger-than-life "miracle doctor" and his unusual treatments. However, joy soon turns to outrage with the discovery that the physician has taken bizarre and inconceivably unethical means to deceive his patients. In some case, the doctor deliberately misled couples into falsely believing they might have a chance to become pregnant when they could not. In others, the twisted physician actually served as a "secret donor," fathering countless children himself. Outraged by these shocking discoveries, one couple leads a seemingly impossible fight to keep hopeful families from being victimized again.
- DirectorJohn PowerStarsLisa HartmanBruce DavisonWhip HubleyTen years after the birth of her son, Corey Maddow discovers an awful truth: Her son was switched at birth. After deciding to keep the child she's raised, she goes on a search for her biological son, but she faces many twists and turns. This true story will have you gasping in disbelief at the lengths one mother will go to in order to reunite with her child.
- DirectorGabrielle BeaumontStarsDee WallaceDanica McKellarKurt DeutschA young woman under immense social pressure from her parents finds comfort in Kenny, a guy who secretly plans to impregnate her and sell the resulting baby for money.
- DirectorNeema BarnetteStarsRichard GriecoCynthia GibbCheryl PollakA rape victim learns the truth about her husband when their daughter has a life-threatening illness.
- DirectorStephen GyllenhaalStarsJessica LangeHalle BerryDavid StrathairnThe biological and adoptive mothers of a young boy are involved in a bitter, controversial custody battle.
- DirectorVern OakleyStarsLisa EichhornCaroline AaronRobert LuPone"A Modern Affair" is a romantic comedy about the strain of contemporary relationships, one woman's urgent desire for parenthood, and a solution to it all. Grace Rhodes is the perfect corporate executive -- bright, successful, attractive and with just professional touch. With her career in place, Grace feels she has everything she needs -- until she bumps into an ex-boyfriend bearing photos of his young kids. Feeling the irresistible urge to have a child, but not sure about waiting around for Mr. Right," Grace knows what she wants, but not how best to get it. Elaine, her wryly pragmatic best friend, suggests that Grace do the unthinkable and enlist the services of a sperm bank. After choosing a donor from the "DNA menu," Grace becomes pregnant and deeply curious about the identity of the donor #247. Enter Peter Kessler, a handsome photographer who divides his time between his craft, his casual affair with a married woman, and his "other job:" depositing specimens as a sperm donor to earn a little extra cash. When Grace and Peter finally meet, they begin the journey down the rocky road to parenthood and possibly from there to love.
- DirectorJan EglesonRaymond HartungStarsConnie SelleccaAlyssa MilanoVincent VentrescaA female art student in need of money agrees to be a surrogate mother for a rich couple. When she learns of their sinister secret involving another baby that died, she takes drastic action.
- DirectorFrank ArnoldStarsJoanna KernsStephanie ZimbalistGaby HoffmannTwo mothers, one biological, one stepmother, fight for the custody and love of 13-year-old Andrea.
- DirectorDouglas BarrStarsMelissa GilbertRosanna ArquetteDavid AndrewsOn the same night, Milford Maternity delivers Morgan--businessman James and Sarah's son--and Linda's boy Luke Wells, whose father Darryl Moncton has already left, so mother and son will live with her parents. A nurse switches the babies' nametags. Two years later, Darryl returns but denies paternity. He accepts a DNA test if she promises that he doesn't need to be involved in their lives anyway. The test reveals that neither is Luke's biological parent. What must happen now?
- DirectorAnita W. AddisonStarsAnne BancroftLynn WhitfieldAlice KrigeA white woman who was raped by a black man gives the baby up for adoption. The film follows the life of the child as she grows up and has children of her own.
- DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsMadonnaRupert EverettBenjamin BrattAbbie, tired of failed relationships, has a one-night-stand with her gay friend; they agree to raise the resulting baby together.