What Makes a Family (2001)
Janine and Sandy are a lesbian couple who decide to have a baby, but after a few years Sandy dies. This tragedy is exploited by Sandy's parents to snatch the girl from Janine's care. But then, and despite having the laws against her, Janine decides to fight in order to regain custody of her daughter.
- Released
- 2001-01-22
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Maggie Greenwald
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 from 23 votes
Cast
- Brooke Shields as Janine Nielssen
- Cherry Jones as Sandy Cataldi
- Whoopi Goldberg as Terry Harrison
- Anne Meara as Evelyn Cataldi
- Al Waxman as Frank Cataldi
- Jordy Benattar as Heather Cataldi
- Melanie Nicholls-King as Nora
- Stewart Arnott as Peter
- Jo Vannicola as Melissa
- Roberta Maxwell as Claire
- Dean McDermott as O'Brien
- Sean McCann as Judge Black