Like Dandelion Dust

After 7 years in prison Rip Porter (Pepper) is released and comes home to find out he has a son that was given up for adoption. He sets out to get him back.

Get ready to get your heart strings ripped out. At least they'll be sewn together good as new by the ending.

Based upon a famous Christian novel. this film completely perverts the Christian elements of the novel Although well acted, the film makes the Christian sister of the heroine both stupid and rash.

When the father is an alcoholic abuser and the mother can't stick up for herself, there's always hope that the son will get to a better home. "Like Dandelion Dust" explores that hope and the powers of wealth, love and family.

This movie tells me one thing: some people should NEVER have children. What I saw was a man who hit his wife, spent time in prison and is rewarded only for biology.

This movie hits very hard, I really don't care who you are this movie will make you take notice, Mira Sorvino and Barry Pepper play a dysfunctional couple who at the beginning of the film get in an altercation that ends Pepper in jail for 7 years, upon his release, Sorvino informs him that she gave his child up for adoption, He decides to do all the right things to get his boy back, but the boy has a new family, and 2 parents who live for this boy, The story has many twists and turns and gets better and better, The entire movie is wonderfully directed, and the acting is sheer genius, Cole Hauser really steals the show with an Oscar worthy performance, and Kate Levering is so good you can feel her pain, I would recommend this movie a thousand times. In fact anyone who doesn't at least have to fight back a few tears from this movie may be a heartless grinch.

Others can discuss the nuts and bolts and the philosophical questions raised by this film. All I have to say is...

I read the book and was anticipating the movie. I didn't expect it to be exactly like the book, but I felt the movie missed the mark entirely.

There were so many things to like about this movie and so many talking points.While the movie was a little too stereo typed for my liking, stereo types exist for a reason.