Losing Isaiah

Resource Information

The work Losing Isaiah represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Losing Isaiah

Statement of responsibility

Paramount Pictures ; producers, Howard W. Koch, Jr., Naomi Foner ; screenplay, Naomi Foner ; director, Stephen Gyllenhaal

Contributor

• Bartkowiak, Andrzej, 1950-
• Berry, Halle
• Foner, Naomi
• Gooding, Cuba, Jr., 1968-
• Gyllenhaal, Stephen
• Isham, Mark
• Jackson, Samuel L
• Koch, Howard W., Jr., 1945-
• Lange, Jessica
• Margolis, Seth Jacob
• Strathairn, David
• Paramount Pictures Corporation

Subject

• Adoption -- Drama
• Birthmothers -- Drama
• Birthmothers -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Families -- Drama
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Interracial adoption -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Melodrama
• New York (N.Y.) -- Drama

Genre

• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Melodrama
• Drama

Language

eng

Summary

A woman who has adopted an abandoned child to give it a new life has to fight for him when his birth mother shows up and wants him back

Member of

• Widescreen DVD collection

Cataloging source

BKL

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Andrzej Bartkowiak ; editor, Harvey Rosenstock ; music, Mark Isham ; costume designer, Mary Malin ; production designer, Jeannine C. Oppewall

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

• CHV rating: PG
• MPAA rating: R

Language note

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.L66913 2007

PerformerNote

Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn, Cuba Gooding, Jr, Samuel L. Jackson

Runtime

106

Series statement

Widescreen DVD collection

Technique

live action