Mother and Child (film)

Mother and Child is an American drama film directed and written by Rodrigo Garca. It premiered on September 14, 2009, at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2010, and was the closing night selection within Maryland Film Festival 2010. It was given a limited release in the United States beginning May 7, 2010.

Karens daughter, Elizabeth Naomi Watts, grows up to be solitary, willful, and hardhearted. She is hired as an attorney at a prestigious law firm headed by Paul Samuel L. Jackson. They have an affair, and she becomes pregnant. She quits without informing Paul of her condition, and moves to a new apartment and a new job. She deposits a letter for her biological mother in the organization that arranged the adoption.Lucy Kerry Washington is a baker who longs to be a mother but cannot have children of her own. She and her husband, Joseph David Ramsey, contact the same adoption agency and meet with a prospective mother. After a protracted interview period, the mother agrees to give the couple her baby, but changes her mind after giving birth. Lucy is devastated. ........

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