Hollywood Film (tv movie) The Memory Keeper's Daughter

                                              credit:quer17iron

Cast:  Emily Watson

              Dermot Mulroney

              Gretchen Mol

Plot: On a snowy winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry rushes his pregnant wife Norah to the hospital, where, with help from her husband and nurse Caroline Gill, she delivers their son Paul. However, Dr. Henry discovers that his wife was carrying twins, and helps her deliver the second child, a baby girl named Phoebe. Shortly after Phoebe's birth, he finds that she has Down Syndrome, and hands her over to Nurse Caroline, explaining that the death of his ill sister nearly destroyed their mother and he doesn't want Norah to go through that. Instead, he instructs Caroline to take Phoebe to a nearby institution for the mentally ill, figuring the child won't live much longer, and tells Norah that Phoebe was a stillborn. However, after visiting the institution and seeing the state of the other patients, Caroline takes the baby home with her, stopping along the way to buy formula and diapers. With help from a truck driver named Al, Caroline begins to raise the baby as her own, while Dr. Henry develops an obsession for photography after his wife gives him the gift of a Memory Keeper camera.  Written by scorpionqueenofhearts  

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My Take: 

This movie is all about making the wrong choice and how you pay for it for the rest of your life. And it's something that everyone can relate to, considering we make choices everyday. Sometime's we're not even aware that we are, but we do. And it's sad cos when the time came to realize that it was the wrong choice, there's nothing we can do to correct it, we can't undo what's been done, and we have to live with the consequences of our action. I admit, there were times when I'd also look back and think I wish i chose the other way. But then I tell myself, it's been laid out for me. I was meant to make that choice. I could be wrong. but somehow it's comforting. Of course, it wasn't as grave as what the character had to decide upon on this movie but it's the same thing. You make a choice,you live with the outcome. This movie is really touching, and it certainly touched a chord inside of me. Ahhhh if only life is less complicated, but then again, that would be like asking for life to be boring... i don't know what to say anymore. What I can assure you is it's not a 90 minute wasted.