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The Coopers vs the Rest (2016)
okay but...
It is very shallow. Comedy can be real, have more uncomfortable bits and still be funny.
I am an adoptive mum with two children. I feel like some very big issues were mentioned in conversation and then brushed over.
For example, when Charlie said he thought he was being adopted again, for an adopted child this life and death terrifying and my son, who has done that (but not in the same circumstances), had a massive melt down and he is not unusual. It takes days not seconds to recover. He said it like he forgot to tie his laces. There were also issues with attachment, rejection that were glossed over. If you watch this with an eye to adopting or to understanding families like ours then you might go away thinking it is a lot simpler than it is.
I quite like it but I think the writing could have been deeper and thereby funnier. I do think it might damage adopters credibility in a world which doesn't always believe how hard adoption is or how different our children can be. I think it has potential.