Description: In the Best Interest of the Children is a 1992 American made-for-television fact-based drama film starring Sarah Jessica Parker who plays a woman struggling with manic-depression while raising her five children. This leads to the children eventually being taken from her and put in foster care. The film originally premiered on NBC on Sunday, February 16, 1992. help them before. At this point, Callie admits she refused to accept their help because of her illness, but assures the kids that the decision of where they will live is up to them. The younger children look to Jessi as to what they should do, but she snaps and tells them she doesn't know everything, and they should just take a vote. She then runs after her mother to wish her good luck, making an apparent peace with her. Callie later bids goodbye to her children as they leave with John and Wanda, whom they have decided to live with. The film ends in the same manner as it opened, with the children singing a rendition of "Take Me Home, Country Roads", eventually joined by their aunt and uncle. As a result of the public consciousness raised by the real-life Cain children's experience, the Iowa State Legislature subsequently enacted new laws regarding the rights of foster children. The children themselves were subsequently adopted by their aunt and uncle, and continued to visit their mother frequently, though she was still battling mental illness. This story is about the five Cain children whose mother suffers from mental instability. When she is finally committed to an institution, the children are fostered by a childless couple who soon grow to love them as their own. Just as they are settling down to their new lives and enjoying the affection and warmth that they have never had, Callie re-appears in their life and decides she wants them back. The children's lives are in danger of being torn apart as they are caught up in a desperate tug of war between the mother they have learned to fear and the foster parents they have grown to love. Vintage quality, indicative of the time-frame it was released. ENJOY A FUN GIFT WITH PURCHASE ON EVERY ORDER!!!!!
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Format: DVD
Release Year: 1992
Music Artist: James Di Pasquale
Video Format: Elizabeth's Ashley
Case Type: Tall/DVD Case
Rating: NR
Subtitle Language: Jayne Atkinson
Sub-Genre: Family, Mystery, Conspiracy, Cops & Robbers, Detective, Disaster, Docudrama, Escape, Law, Life Story, Melodrama, News/Current Affairs, Parenting, Self-Help, Self-Defense, Survival, Whodunit, Youth
Director: Michael Ray Rhodes
Cinematic Movement: Video Rondo
Franchise: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Studio: NBC Productions
Edition: Limited Edition, Collector's Edition
Aspect Ratio: Harry Lennix
Type: Movie
Region Code: DVD: 0/All (Region Free/Worldwide)
Language: English
Producer: Michael Ray Rhodes executive producer
Actor: Sarah Jessica Parker
Features: Lexi Randall
Genre: Drama
Movie/TV Title: the best interest of the children
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Season: Sally Struthers