Stolen Babies
A 1940s Tennesee welfare worker learns that Georgia Tann, the charismatic head of a local adoption agency, is actually running a black-market baby ring behind the Tennesee Childrens Home Society.
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- Cast:
- Lea Thompson , Kathleen Quinlan , Mary Nell Santacroce , Mary Tyler Moore , Brett Rice , Tom Nowicki , Judson Vaughn
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Load of rubbish!!
Good concept, poorly executed.
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
The acting in this movie is really good.
This movie stars the lovely Lea Thompson and tells how her character, Anne Beales, uncovers a "baby farming" scandal in the rural American south in the 40s. The story is told plainly and the historical detail is done well, down to clothes and local shops in small towns. The chief villain is a Miss Tan who runs an unlicensed children's home and seems over-keen on removing children from their homes, or their "illiterate whore" mothers and selling - I mean "giving" - them to rich, needy, childless parents. Lea Thompson sets her jaw and tries to see justice done. Make sure you have a large box of tissues by your side when you watch this movie.