Susan Merrill

I love watching movies, but sometimes the choices can be ugly.  So when a movie comes out that has meaning, gives understanding and depth to life, opens up opportunities for discussion and reflection, I am all over it.  October Baby is such a movie and it releases in theaters on Friday.

In October Baby every life is beautiful…but living through it is not always pretty.  October Baby honestly explores the reality of life. As the mother of adopted children, so much portrayed in the movie spoke to me personally.  I have seen the same pain Hannah fights as she unravels her past in the movie played out in my children’s lives.  Having met my adopted children’s birth mother, I cried as saw the emotion in Hannah’s birth mother’s face.  Most of all, I anguished with Hannah’s adopted parents in their desire to protect and love the child they had taken to be their own. Every life is beautiful and Hannah’s life is no exception…but then neither is yours.  October Baby won’t let you forget that.