One of my all time favorites.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This movie about a young woman who finds out she is adopted and goes to find her birth mother. This is the most irritating and slow moving movie ever made. The central character is so rude and ungrateful and annoying. Instead of being grateful that 2 loving parents chose to adopt her and give her a wonderful life, she acts out, is terribly rude to them and just makes a total nuisance of her as she goes on her quest. Meanwhile she also breaks up a guy and his girlfriend. The only feel good part of this movie was when her birth mother rejects her.The story doesn't progress well and the dialog is bad. The romance between the central characters is awkward and they don't have chemistry. Probably because the casting is no good. The girls are too pretty for the guys.Don't watch it - a total waste of time.

I was channel surfing a few days ago, and bumped into October Baby. "Oh no, not another teen angst movie", was my initial thought. But I lingered for awhile, and boy, am I glad I did! What a powerful story that impresses upon us the power of forgiveness - with none of the usual over the top scripts that come out of Hollywood. What a breath of fresh air, especially when we live in days of fascination with Hollywood induced "art" - more sex, violence, foul language, vampires/zombies to no end or what Brad & Angelina are up to next. What the movie gives us instead are honest performances, hardly any clichés. It endorses the importance of family - something that I think the western part of the globe is treading further & further away from. It stories like this that help us to have hope; it might be understated, but it gets you where it needs to - your convictions.

This movie is well made, well acted, and has heart...Unfortunately, it is SLOOOWWW PACED and rather predictable. A teen girl finds out that she's adopted. She goes on a road trip to find her birth mother. When something is actually happening that matters, the movie is entertaining. Unfortunately, the movie is inundated with spans of quiet...For example, early on there is a scene in a library where we have 8 seconds of a young man walking up the stairs and then joining his friend at a table... That 8 seconds might not seem like a big deal, but multiply the movie is riddled with those 'empty spaces.' I think if the director removed those 'empty spaces' the movie would have a good pace.Now, to be clear, it is ultimately a heart-warming and touching film. If you have patience, you'll likely enjoy the movie.

This is, literally, one of the worst movies I've ever seen - and I've seen Howard the Duck and Leonard Part 6...and compared to this, those movies were Oscar contenders. I wanted to abort MYSELF about 20 minutes in, because I saw where this film was going. But I stuck with it.Where do I start? The anti-choice/"pro-life" propaganda? The AWFUL Christian rock soundtrack that pervades the entire film? The complete and utter suspension of disbelief (or brainwashing) required to buy even the slightest detail in this film?The main problem with movies made by Christian people is that they structure them around the way the feel life SHOULD BE, rather than how it actually is. This movie is infused with the propriety of adults, when it's supposed to be about KIDS - Christian or not. A bunch of broke college kids on a road trip. Despite the fact that they embark on said road trip in a VW camper with the "untouchable love interest/good Christian boy's" cousin, who looks like the biggest stoner outside of Dazed and Confused...yet no sex, no smoking, no drinking, not even so much as a cigarette, because good Christian kids don't do those things...right. They talk about vegetarianism and baby turtles instead.And despite being "broke college kids", they buy multiple hotel rooms, because it's just too taboo for them to share a room together?! Really? Jesus doesn't want boys and girls to sleep together, even platonically?! That's not proper? I guess I'm going to hell then. Not to mention that the girlfriend of the love interest/good Christian boy is one dimensional and pure freaking evil! Yet despite his holiness, he chose her,over the oh so holy, mild mannered heroine of this tale. But of COURSE they don't have sex! She has to share a room with the leading lady with epilepsy, and MOCKS her for it! How Christian!But what really, really, REALLY bothered me about this film were the fallacies imparted concerning abortion. So I'm supposed to believe that this "doctor" agreed to perform an abortion on someone 24 weeks pregnant (TWICE the legal limit of 12 weeks), didn't notice the mother was having twins despite the exams and ultrasounds required before the procedure, and when attempting to abort the one baby he thought there was, only got an ARM?! ONE arm?! And this "doctor" then said "Ho-hum, this abortion's done!" NEVER HAPPEN. Lies and Christian, pro-life propaganda. BS.Though to back this up, the nurse (Roxy from Dead Like Me, an AWESOME show :() says that kind of thing happened ALL THE TIME with this "doctor". Also lies. Despicable, misleading, horrible lies, from a sect of people who give a crap UNTIL a baby is born - and then say "why'd you have a baby you couldn't afford?" when a woman requests public assistance. But I digress...What I found most detestable was the casting of an actress who had actually undergone an abortion to play leading lady's bio mother. An actress turned born again Christian, should I say. This, to me, was the most horrible, victimizing, cherry-on-top-of the right wing sundae that was this movie. Because I could feel her emotion, her regret, her guilt. These film-makers used this woman in the worst way a woman can be used, and true, she allowed it. But I feel for her. I don't begrudge her whatever comfort this movie gave her. But to me, Christians live in a world of "do as I say, not as I do." I would have rather seen this woman sympathize with girls in the same position as she was than take part in a movie that vilifies them.All this being said, I feel that, minus the propaganda, this COULD have been an awesome movie. It's a great concept, that I could have gotten behind, had it been treated with some dignity and truth. But Christian movie makers tend to Disney-fy everything to the extent where it's no longer believable. Your kids make mistakes, just like the rest of the us. You don't need to set an example. We sure aren't looking to you for one.