[Fraulein]

No, I didn't know anything about the real story. Stay away from this movie, though, unless you want a good blood boil. For example, Halle's character, who should have been arrested for attempted murder, or at the very least child endangerment, gets the child back simply because "that child needs a black mother." In court, the white woman who adopted the black child is grilled because she has not yet read the toddler any books on black history. So the courts decide it is best for the child to go back to a total stranger (who tried to kill him) who cannot even read at all. And so the whole thing goes...

When a friend tells Halle's character that her son is still alive, she says, "I just assumed he was dead." Then she decides that she should get the child back with the help of Samuel L. Jackson...

[cyborg]

I lived the real story sort of. My mother was calling to adopt a child. She wanted to adopt a mixed race or white child because my father is white, and those kind of children would fit right in with my sister and I. Before she said she was black hispanic and my father was white, they offered to give her a black baby but quickly changed their minds when they found out that my father was white. The guy hung up on my mother.

Too bad... sucks to be raised by a white father... private schools, good home, nice mom, happy childhood.