What Makes a Family (2001)
- Director(s):
- Maggie Greenwald
Synopsis of What Makes a Family
Co-produced by Barbra Streisand and Whoopi Goldberg, the made-for-TV What Makes a Family stars Brooke Shields, cast against type as a woman happily committed to a lesbian relationship. Yearning for a family of their own, Janine Nielsen (Shields) and her partner, Sandy Cataldi (Cherry Jones), elect to have a baby via artificial insemination, with Sandy as the biological mother. Alas, Sandy dies not long after the birth of her child, whereupon Janine is plunged into a legal hell by Sandy's parents (Anne Meara and Al Waxman), who sue to gain custody of the baby. Poignantly addressing a myriad of moral, legal, and ethical issues, What Makes a Family was ideally suited to air over the Lifetime cable network, where the film first aired on January 31, 2001. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Maggie Greenwald
- Writer(s):
- Robert L. Freedman
- Producer(s):
- Wendy Grean, Tom Leonardis, Robert L. Freedman
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