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Movies About Adoption

Name: Movies About Adoption
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Films about adoption and foster care — finding family, identity, and belonging.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
The Wild Robot	2024	Chris Sanders	8.3	Animation, Science Fiction, Family, Drama, Adventure	United States of America	102	After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.
Lion	2016	Garth Davis	8	Drama	Australia	118	A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Short Term 12	2013	Destin Daniel Cretton	7.8	Drama	United States of America	96	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.
The Blind Side	2009	John Lee Hancock	7.7	Drama	United States of America	129	The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople	2016	Taika Waititi	7.7	Adventure, Comedy, Drama	New Zealand	101	Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Instant Family	2018	Sean Anders	7.5	Comedy, Drama	United States of America	118	When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.
Tarzan	1999	Chris Buck	7.4	Family, Adventure, Animation, Drama, Action	United States of America	88	Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to...
Philomena	2013	Stephen Frears	7.3	Drama	United Kingdom	98	A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
Juno	2007	Jason Reitman	7.1	Comedy, Drama, Romance	United States of America	96	Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence	2001	Steven Spielberg	7.1	Drama, Science Fiction, Adventure	United Kingdom	146	David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.
Annie	2014	Will Gluck	6.2	Comedy, Drama, Family	United States of America	118	Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everythi...

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