Brown Bread: The Story of an Adoptive Family

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.

This is a very refreshing and thought provoking film. Brown Bread delves deep into themes that are normally just skimmed over.

"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.

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.

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.

The intensely personal documentary "Brown Bread" etches the compelling experience of an adoptive family of six children: two Caucasian birth children and four adoptees, two African-American and two Latino. The viewer, drawn cinematically into this unique and rare circle, inevitably reflects on a wide spectrum of familial issues through the retrospective observations of each parent and all six siblings.