Losing Isaiah

About Losing Isaiah

Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles.

Losing Isaiah is a 1995 drama film directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal. Jessica Lange takes the lead as Margaret Lewin, Halle Berry as Khaila Richards, David Strathairn as Charles Lewin, and Cuba Gooding Jr. as Eddie Hughes.

It runs 106 minutes and was released in March 1995. Written by Naomi Foner. The film began as a novel.

Members will find extramarital affair, drug addiction, child abuse, and baby in it. It scores 6.5 out of 10 from 111 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

Forrest Gump, Primal Fear, and Sleepers make useful companions to Losing Isaiah, all filed under single parent.