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Lights, Camera, Action!
We've got a great line-up of movies that feature foster care themes. Watch 'em — then share 'em — to raise awareness and resources for kids in foster care!
Check out the great movie listed below, then plan a showing with your friends and family!
1) Plan a Movie Night! Raise awareness, or ask people to make a pledge: use our event planner to plan fun activities for your movie showing that FUNdraise and promote awareness!
2) Gather a group of people: youth, friends, family. Think about hosting a movie night for your church group, youth advisory board, class, or scout troop.
3) Print a FosterClub Movie Guide (available for the 3 movies below) to lead a thoughtful discussion after your movie showing.
Antwone Fisher
Antwone Fisher, a young navy man, is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past relating to his experiences in foster care is revealed and a hopeful future begins. Inspired by a true story.
Meet the Robinsons
After being abandoned at birth and spending 12 years in an orphanage as a foster youth, Lewis goes on a journey to discover the meaning of family. Lewis is a brilliant inventor who meets a mysterious stranger named Wilbur Robinson, who whisks Lewis away in a time machine. Together they team up to track down Bowler Hat Guy in a showdown that ends with an unexpected twist of fate.
Hotel for Dogs
No stray gets turned away. Two foster youth secretly take in nine stray dogs at a vacant house, making the dogs foster pups.
Have other ideas for movies we should add to this section? List them below in our comments section!
"Aging Out" is a great documentary as well. I use the doc as a discussion tool with the youth I work with. They respond fairly well to the youth and relate to their experiences.
Yeah, it's a great list. I'd reach out to anonymous and ask for more info, but unfortunately there's no way to contact that person because they weren't logged in. At some point, I'll put this up on the home page for a while. How's that sound?
Wow - what a great list "Anonymous" gave!! Can you put those up on your site too with some info about each? I too offer lists of movies to watch as training. I like pointing out that a lot of the recent cult movies involve foster youth: The Cullen kids in Twilight and Harry in Harry Potter!
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There are also some T.V shows that have the main caracter as foster youth such as Bones and that new show Life Unexpected
I'm a surviver
Wow...that's a quite a list of movies. Thanks for sharing!
Isn't at least one of the "Free Willy" movies about a foster child trying to find his place among his foster family?
"There is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
Mary Pickford
I am a licensing specialist for a foster care agency and fp can watch movies for training hours. Here is the list of movies I give them.
Dramas
1. Angels in the Outfield
2. Antoine Fisher
3. A Beautiful Mind
4. I am Sam
5. Losing Isaiah
6. The Lost Child
7. Secondhand Lions
8. White Oleander
9. Juno
10. Evelyn (2002)
11. Gracie’s Choice
12. Nell
13. The Lost Child (2000)
14. What about Bob (boundary issues)
15. America (2009)
16. Sybil (1976)
17. The Lost & Found Family (2009)
18. Foster Child (2007)
19. Saving Sarah Cain (2007)
20. The House of Love (2004)
21. Switching Parents (1992)
22. Who'll Save Our Children? (1978)
Cartoons/Family Movies
1. An American Tail
2. The Land Before Time
3. Lion King
4. Lilo and Stitch
5. Oliver and Company
6. Ice Age
7. Annie
8. Snow Dogs
9. Scooter Kidz (2001)
10. Hotel for Dogs
11. . Meet the Robinsons
Documentaries
1. Taken In: The Lives of America's Foster Children (1998)
2. Someplace to Call Home: Surviving the Foster Care System
3. The Boys of St. Vincent
4. I Know My First Name Is Steven, also released as The Missing Years, (1989)
5. Just Ask My Children, 2001
Tori, Thanks for the suggestion. I'm also going to send this list of movies to child welfare staff and school staff. I hope this will give us a deeper understanding of the young people we are here to serve and protect.
J. Marez
i'm not sure of anymore fostercare related ones out now but i do know they are supposed to be working on one based on the dave pelzer books about his childhood entitled the lost boy
Great idea! The movie "America" is amazing. (you can download it on itunes/ find it on lifetime)
This one was an eye opener for those who have "limited knowledge" about how the system works, it really helped my friends relate/"see" what it was like to be a foster kid. It was really nice to be able to share my experience w/o anyone changing the topic cause nobody knew how to respond.
America is about Dr. Maureen Brennan (Rosie O'Donnell), a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a 16-year-old biracial boy named America. Through their sessions, Dr. Brennan helps America come to terms with his roller-coaster life, which began when he was taken by authorities from his crack-addicted mother and placed into foster care as an infant. In this emotional story, Dr. Brennan works to help him open up about his painful past and discover the support and courage he needs to get his life back on track.
watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUONc6MeLwI
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