Winner of the 2003 Sundance Film Festival's Documentary Audience Award, TV journalist-turned-filmmaker Jonathan Karsh's powerful and startlingly unsentimental movie examines the lives of Susan Tom and her 11 adopted children. What makes the Tom family unique isn't just its size, or the fact that Susan, a divorcee with two grown children of her own, manages to run her household with no steady income or savings. It's that all of Susan's adopted kids are special-needs children whose handicaps range from mild retardation to terminal illness. They include 19-year-old Anthony, who suffers from a degenerative disease that makes his skin pull away from his body at the slight...
Released:
2003
Rated:
NR
Length:
83 mins