What Makes a Family (2001)

Directors

Maggie Greenwald

Cast

Brooke Shields, Cherry Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, Anne Meara, Al Waxman, Jordy Benattar, Melanie Nicholls-King, Stewart Arnott, Joanne Vannicola, Roberta Maxwell, Dean McDermott, Sean McCann, Philip Williams, Jayne Eastwood

The story

Based on a true story, the film involves a lesbian couple living in Florida who choose to have a child. Janine Nielsen and her partner, Sandy Cataldi, elect to conceive a baby via artificial insemination with Sandy as the biological mother. After the birth of their daughter Heather, Sandy is diagnosed with systemic lupus when she collapses at the baby's christening.

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