INSTANT FAMILY - BLU

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• Release Year: 2019
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: Married couple Pete and Ellie Wagner, feeling a void in the marriage, visit a foster care center. Two social workers, Karen and Sharon, guide the hopeful parents on the steps to getting into becoming adoptive parents. The couples are brought to a fair where they have the chance to go up to kids that they are interested in adopting. Pete and Ellie walk by the teenagers, although Ellie shows hesitance over raising a teen, one of the teens, Lizzie, informs Ellie that they all know no one wants to adopt the teens. Pete and Ellie talk to Karen and Sharon over potentially taking in Lizzie. The social workers inform the couple that Lizzie's mother is a drug addict who is currently in jail, and she set their home on fire because she left the crack pipe lit. They also find that Lizzie has two younger siblings, Juan and Lita. Although this seems like more of a challenge for Pete and Ellie, they agree to meet the siblings. Pete and Ellie have Thanksgiving dinner with Ellie's family, where they all make comments about never having confidence in the Wagners adopting kids. Ellie has enough and decides that they will go through with the foster care to prove that they can be good parents.
• Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Isabela Merced, Gustavo Quiroz, Julianna Gamiz, Octavia Spencer, Tig Notaro, Tom Segura, Allyn Rachel, Britt Rentschler, Jody Thompson, Margo Martindale, Julie Hagerty, Michael O'Keefe, Joan Cusack, Gary Weeks, Joy Jacobson, Andrea Anders, Kenneth Israel, Hampton Fluker, Randy Havens, Iliza Shlesinger, Javier Ronceros, Rosemary Dominguez, Eve Harlow, Joselin Reyes, Connor Jones, Jaiden Byrd, James Arthur Sims, Sarah Kirkpatrick, John McConnell, Maureen Brennan, Kelly Tippens, Charlie McDermott, Erika Bierman, Layla Felder, Candice Daniels, Carson Holmes, Nicholas Logan, Allen Zwolle, Anthony 'Ace' Thomas, Andrene Ward-Hammond, Stella Doyle, Valente Rodriguez, Denitra Isler, Alexis Lord, Perry Westberry, Remy Ortiz, Mark Schotz, Jerry T. Richerson, Caleb Pratt, William J. Simmons, Cruze Lynnox Keith, Maegan McCarthy, Billie Wilemon, Noah Jordan Scott, Knightly Knox Scott, Jonathan Kobs, Lori Hernandez, Jennifer 'Ms Fer' Russell, Athena Akers, Bobby Akers, J.T. Blair, Raphael Dante' Carr Jr., Taylor K Charles, Leon Croom, Marc Demeter, Sandy Givelber, Emelita T. Gonzalez, Heaven Hightower, Maya S. Joshi, Léland Downs Karas, Serene Lee-Sng, Shane Donovan Lewis, Destiny Lopez, Monica Mathis, Eleanore Miechkowski, Donald K. Overstreet, Hannah Powell, Zachary Powell, John Thelan Reece, Patti Schellhaas, James Paul Shephard, Max Stewart, Benjamin Weaver, Wes Weems, Dmani Q. Williams, Maria Z. Wilson, Sean Anders, John Morris
• Director: Sean Anders
• Runtime: 1:58
• Media Format: Movie