Ellie and Pete Wagner are a married couple, satisfied with both their private and working life, but after the umpteenth argument with Ellie's sister, who is desperately trying to conceive a baby, she and Pete start thinking about adoption. What was at first an unstudied idea eventually becomes serious and so they join a foster parents course.
Even with the help of two hilarious and sassy social workers, Karen and Sharon, the couple is completely clueless about what they're looking for in their future child and end up getting sarcastically teased by a teenage girl, Lizzy.
She definitely made an impression so Ellie and Pete decide to ask for her custody; catch is she has two younger siblings, Juan and Lita, and Lizzy isn't going anywhere without them.
Still overwhelmed, the couple keeps on with the foster care procedures, and finally, the three siblings go to live with them...
After a brief 'honeymoon phase', the couple experiences all the difficulties parents have to go through: Lizzy is a rebel teenager who does everything in her power to keep them both at a distance, hoping their biological mother will come and take them again. Juan is very introverted and shy, always putting himself in every kind of semi-comical situation while Lita only wants to eat chips and doesn't take no for answer.
Just when things are started to settle and little, but significant improvements are made, the kids' mother, Carla, comes out of prison and asks to see her children...
Even with the help of two hilarious and sassy social workers, Karen and Sharon, the couple is completely clueless about what they're looking for in their future child and end up getting sarcastically teased by a teenage girl, Lizzy.
She definitely made an impression so Ellie and Pete decide to ask for her custody; catch is she has two younger siblings, Juan and Lita, and Lizzy isn't going anywhere without them.
Still overwhelmed, the couple keeps on with the foster care procedures, and finally, the three siblings go to live with them...
After a brief 'honeymoon phase', the couple experiences all the difficulties parents have to go through: Lizzy is a rebel teenager who does everything in her power to keep them both at a distance, hoping their biological mother will come and take them again. Juan is very introverted and shy, always putting himself in every kind of semi-comical situation while Lita only wants to eat chips and doesn't take no for answer.
Just when things are started to settle and little, but significant improvements are made, the kids' mother, Carla, comes out of prison and asks to see her children...
My Opinion👍👎
This goes easily on the "Best Comedy I've Ever Watched" list. Seriously, it has the right amount of humour and emotional moments, the cast is superb (can we talk about Joan Cusack at the end of the movie?!) and the story heartfelt. Rosie Byrne and Mark Wahlberg are exceptional in their roles and the same goes for Isabela Moner, Gustavo Quiroz Jr., and Julianna Gamiz, who portray the three adopted siblings.
The topic is a very sensible one and I like how at first Ellie and Pete had doubts and shared comments on how they felt like babysitting someone else's children but then, step by step, they developed parental love in confront of the children.
I found realistic and reliable the fact that there were different types of couples (and not) who applied for the foster care program, like the ultra-religious married couple, the gay one, a working woman...all of them, for different reasons, decided to join and their experiences help Ellie and Pete a lot!
All the little things biological parents give for granted, for them are milestones: being called 'mom' or 'dad', bonding with them and see them changing their attitude...
I'm not a mother, still, I'm well aware that being parents isn't an easy job and foster parents aren't much different.
The topic is a very sensible one and I like how at first Ellie and Pete had doubts and shared comments on how they felt like babysitting someone else's children but then, step by step, they developed parental love in confront of the children.
I found realistic and reliable the fact that there were different types of couples (and not) who applied for the foster care program, like the ultra-religious married couple, the gay one, a working woman...all of them, for different reasons, decided to join and their experiences help Ellie and Pete a lot!
All the little things biological parents give for granted, for them are milestones: being called 'mom' or 'dad', bonding with them and see them changing their attitude...
I'm not a mother, still, I'm well aware that being parents isn't an easy job and foster parents aren't much different.
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Rating: 4½/5
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