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Brown Bread: The Story of an Adoptive Family (2014) is a English movie. Sarah Gross has directed this movie. are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2014. Brown Bread: The Story of an Adoptive Family (2014) is considered one of the best Documentary,Biography,Family movie in India and around the world.
In the hills of Northern California, an unusual family gathers for their reunion. As they join hands around the table, their colorful mix of races looks like the American dream of integration. It started with a vision. The grandparents recall how in the 1970s they began to adopt. Scenes from the week-long reunion are intercut with images from their adult children's daily lives. A professor at Stanford, a manual day laborer, an entrepreneur in debt, ...these portraits show radical differences in class and identity. Their ability to laugh and to love across boundaries of social and racial division made this family possible. But their differences still drive them apart. A personal documentary about what it means to grow up in an adoptive family.
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Brown Bread: The Story of an Adoptive Family (2014) Reviews
a moving, very personal film that says a lot about the world around us
The filmmaker tells the story of her family, consciously shaped by parents who in the early 1970s decided to adopt trans-racially rather than have more children of their own. The result is a family with six children of very different racial, social and personal backgrounds. Growing up together was a challenge and the film offers a distant but still clearly audible echo of some of the violent clashes that ensued. Twenty years later, some of the siblings wonder if they still are a family, or even if they ever were one. But almost all of them come together for a big reunion and we get to listen in on some of their exchanges... What I loved about this film is how it offers a perspective on universal and political themes such as family, race, class and adoption through the lens of a unique personal journey.
The melting pot of America represented through one families story...
This is a very refreshing and thought provoking film. Brown Bread delves deep into themes that are normally just skimmed over. Dealing with familial, adoptive and multi-racial themes, the family in "Brown Bread" manages to examine itself without exhorting to clichés or too much sentimentality. Although the family is certainly unique, what they expose about their relationships should touch anyone. Filmed over several years, and using decades worth of photos and family films, "Brown Bread" slowly creates a complete picture of this families history. One aspect I love about the film is this lesson it reveals: all relationships are relatively simple and similar, regardless of age or race. How to open up and be comfortable with these relationships and the feelings that they produce, well...that's complicated. And yet amazingly, the family which this documentary revolves around is able to achieve just that. Don't expect to finish the film with dry eyes.
Humorous yet profound
This movie is amazingly good at telling a deeply meaningful and entirely serious story while also sprinkling in funny anecdotes. The manner in which the viewer sees the story unfold allows the viewer to forge deep bonds with each of the individual characters, both from the adopted part of the family as well as the biological children. One of my favorite characters is Adam. Adam perfectly reflects this split between humorous jokes and fundamental questions about belonging and love. The jokes Adam tells had me laughing so hard I though I might choke while the serious questions he posed, e.g. when he talks about Margot's biological vs adopted grand children brought up deep moral questions about family and values. I can recommend this movie to anyone who is interested in participating in a detailed examination of what family means, both in terms of Sarah Gross's family as well as their own. Additionally, I would like to commend the filmmaker for making this movie. I can imagine that doing so was never easy and much of the pain that had been hidden or forgotten resurfaced. I hope that this pain was worth it because in my opinion the result is remarkable. I believe this movie will only gain further applicability to all areas of society, from questions about the American Dream and racial integration in America to question about tolerance and integration on larger scales the world over, although especially in Europe with the rise of IS and the number of displaced persons it creates.
thought-provoking adoption story for every family
"Brown Bread" is a story of one family that touches on aspects of all our families. When an vibrant, idealistic white couple with two biological children adopt, over time, four children of different backgrounds, they challenge many of our society's assumptions (then and now) about race, class, education, adoption and parenting. What one of the children thinks of as an "experiment" and all the children (and grandchildren) think of as unique is also all our families' stories - our triumphs and failures of parenting, sibling relationships and coming of age. A serious topic is handled with real empathy, great grace and much humor.
an unflinching family portrait
This film lives out the artistic truth that when things are most particular, they are most universal. This is a story about a very unique family. Yet it is also a story about all adoptive families, and really a story about all families. It is a story about any person who struggles to live out their ideals in our less than perfect world. It is a story about anyone who is just trying to hold things together and get by. As this family struggles to understand itself it invites us to understand our place within our own family and how we define family. It is a long look at some hard realities, and it is an affirmation of hope.