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Courtesy of Closure
Closure: A Documentary About Adoption
This story transcends geographical boundaries, racial boundaries, socio-economic and cultural boundaries. Although the film’s title denotes completion, this is a film about many beginnings.
Closure is Bryan Tucker’s first feature documentary film. Quickly we see he is a natural-born filmmaker.
Angela was born of African-American parents in 1985, in Tennessee, and diagnosed at birth with plastic quadriplegia—the doctors said she would never walk. Angela was placed in foster care, and a year later adopted by a loving Caucasian couple from Washington state. Angela became part of a large family—her adoptive parents love children, and all but one are adopted.
Angela became a basketball player—so much for doctors’ pronouncements—finished college, and married a handsome young filmmaker named Bryan Tucker.
At a certain point in her young adulthood Angela decided to find her birth-mother. This understandable impulse had powerful emotional repercussions for all concerned.
We take several trips between Washington state and the Deep South, and experience the creation of many strong cross-continental family bonds. Get out your handkerchiefs.
Tucker tells this story of many twists with the aplomb of a veteran filmmaker.
Closure is a thoroughly engaging, charming, and gratifying story.
The film is easy to find. Just start right here.