I Am Somebody's Child: The Regina Louise Story
I Am Somebody's Child: The Regina Louise Story
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- Season: 2018-2019
- Network: Lifetime
- Genre: Drama
- Category: Movies
- Subject Matter: True Story, Social Issue, Woman Against The System
- Based On: Somebody"s Someone and Someone has Led this Child to Believe written by Regina Louise
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Plot Synopsis
Based on the books "Somebody's Someone" and "Someone has Led this Child to Believe" by Regina Louise. In the late 1970's Regina Louise, a young African American girl, is continually shunted to foster homes, group homes and psychiatric facilities until one woman, Jeanne Kerr, a white woman, believes in her and want to adopt her. After Jeanne's unsuccessful attempt to adopt Regina, due to a racially motivated ruling, their bond is forced apart. Eventually aging out of the foster care system Regina finds the strengthen to build a life for herself. She never forgets the love that helped her defeats the odds of a corrupt system and vows to find Jeanne. Finally reconnecting 25 years later Jeanne is finally able to adopt Regina in the same courthouse that denied them previously.
Crew
- Howard Braunstein - Executive Producer
- Yvonne Chotzen - Executive Producer
- T.D. Jakes - Executive Producer
- Derrick Williams - Executive Producer
- Ginnifer Goodwin - Executive Producer
- Jennifer Cooke - Director
- Camille Thomasson - Writer
Production Company:
- Lifetime Television
Production Type:
- In-House
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