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Tigger27
<--Me in my dancin mood!
Registered: February 2005
Location: Utah
Posts: 4340
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Review Date: Thu August 17, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
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While it's not a major adoption film, there is a little adoption related stuff in the movie with his not knowing his biological parents and then setting off to find them and to connect with his biological dad.
It's mostly just a cute, funny Christmas movie though that I really enjoy and I also really like Will Ferrell.
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Anne 
Firstmom to 2 beautiful daughters.
A, 3-14-03 & K, 11-21-04
Birthaunt to "Christopher Scott" 2-27-85
Here's My Story, If you'd like to read it  .
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rilo kiley
Adoptee in Reunion
Registered: April 2006
Location: New York
Posts: 384
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Review Date: Fri September 1, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
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| Rating: 0
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I really enjoyed this film. I love Will Ferrell and Zoey Deschanel so it was a lot of fun for me.
The adoption theme is interesting- he doesn't fit in with his afamily (they are elves) and yet he loves his afamily and land more than anything- it has informed who he is- he tries to be the best elf he can be and yet he falls short constantly. His afather loves him very much and tries to provide the best he knows how. His afather supports his search to find his bfather- that is very good!
He finds his father and he doesn't quite fit there either. Just like all of us adoptees. A very sweet and fun Christmas movie- I think young adoptees would really enjoy it. Good to talk to your adopted children after watching the film....
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With love and thanks to all my girlies here
You are all so unique and marvelous 
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bellazmama
My user name says it all!
Registered: January 2003
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 359
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Review Date: Thu September 13, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? No |
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| Rating: 1
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Unfriendly/Language
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As an adoptive mother, I thought the way this movie treats adoption was insulting. Plus the language was too "salty" for the intended audience.
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Favorite Book: "Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent's Guide to Raising Multiracial Children" by D. Jackson Nakazawa--Addresses the special questions & concerns facing both transracial adoptive families & bio families, explaining how parents can best prepare multiracial children of all ages to make their way confidently in a color-conscious world.
"I can't take credit for the face, but I will take credit for the smile."
"Truth is the cure for ignorance. Stupidity, however, is terminal."
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