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who ends up with the kid?


I started watching and didn't see the end. Who gets the kid in the end??

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The judge awards custody to Halle's character and Isaiah has a really hard time adjusting and can't get over the loss of his adoptive mother. In the end, Halle relates Isaiah's experience to her own experience in having grown up in foster care and decides to make a moral decision. She calls Jessica Lange and states that although she wants Isaiah to continue attending the school that she (Halle) enrolled him in with children who look like him, she will allow him to come back and live with Jessica's family until "he is older and can make sense of it all."

I like to think they formed sort of an extended family with his natural mother still very much in his life without ripping him away from the family who'd raised him. I'm pretty sure that's what the director wanted us to take away from it since the final scene showed Halle, Jessica, and Isaiah sitting together playing blocks in the school.



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I know, I kept thinking it would've been nice if Isaiah could grow up and still have his adopted family in his life, even though he would live with Kyla.

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The other two children will have more time with Isaiah’s mother, too. That will help them.

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The Lewins.

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