The Lost Child
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Karen Arthur
Mercedes Ruehl
Jamey Sheridan
Irene Bedard
Dinah Manoff
Tantoo Cardinal
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A young married woman learns that she is a Navajo; she was stolen at birth and raised by an upper middle class Jewish family in the eastern United States. The woman's family must deal with her desire to move West, to explore her real culture and past.Her adoption was never kept secret from Rebecca, who grew up with a caring family. But things change when her adoptive mother passes away and her father marries a woman who has no interest in his child. Rebecca joins the Navy and later marries Jack Miller. She and Jack have two daughters of their own. After Rebecca's father dies, she turns to the Internet to try to find her biological family. In response to her search, Rebecca is contacted by a woman on a Navajo reservation who is looking for twin siblings who were stolen from her mother soon after they were born. As they talk, the women realize that they are sisters. Rebecca decides to take her children to meet her family on the reservation. Her father and sister begin to introduce her to the customs and language of the Navajo people. When Jack comes to visit, the differences between the two cultures rise to the surface and Rebecca must try to integrate the old and new so that her whole family can be together. Based on a true story.
Director
Karen Arthur
Cast
Mercedes Ruehl
Jamey Sheridan
Irene Bedard
Dinah Manoff
Tantoo Cardinal
Ned Romero
Julia Mcilvaine
Michael Greyeyes
Cristine Rose
Ed Begay
Maynard Bell
Ashley Burritt
Katherine Crookedhorn
Deanne Giago
Camille Gordon
Maggie Hunts
Roy Johnston
Shayna Levine
Naomi Lovelace
Roger Maloney
David Martinez
Eric Martinez
Douglas Miles
Hamilton Mitchell
Kimberly Norris
Jennifer Podemski
Jon Proudstar
Petur Redbird
Shannon Rivers
Rudy Soto
Patty Suarez
Alan Tafoya
Loren Tapahe
Delphine Tsinajinnie
Nicole Weltzien
Kimberly Norris Guerrero
Crew
Steve C. Aaron
Chuck Brown
Scott Burnett
Helen Butler
Marcia Calosio
Craig Cannold
Janis Clark
Robert Detweiler
Donald P H Eaton
Veronica Hadfield
Terry Hall
Olivia Harris
Phyllis Huffman
Terrance James
Terry Kempf
Tracy Kilpatrick
Chris Ledesma
Susan J Marks
Mark Mckenzie
Yvette Melanson
Ian Morgan
Dana Morrell
Keith Mosca
Ellen Nesselrode
Tom Neuwirth
Tom Neuwirth
Robert Norin
Terry O'bright
Russ Patrick
Noel Phillips
Sabrina Plisco
Sally Robinson
Keith Rogers
Judi Rosner
Claire Safran
Rita Salazar
Rita Salazar-ashford
Theodore Sharps
Brent Shields
Gary Stanek
Robert Steinhauer
Robert Steinhauer
Kathleen Straub
Heidi K Sturdevant
Shane Summers
Kelly Vahey
Karen Mayeda Vranek
Lynn Wegenka
Richard Welsh
Mary Ann Willie
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States November 19, 2000
Previous title: "Looking For Lost Bird."
Telecast as a presentation of "Hallmark Hall of Fame."
Began shooting January 27, 2000.
Completed shooting February 25, 2000.
