Friday, June 1, 2007

Karen Kingsbury's Like Dandelion Dust to be movie

Downes Brothers Entertainment has this up about the movie version of Like Dandelion Dust:

Title: LIKE DANDELION DUST – an adaptation of the best-selling novel by Karen Kingsbury - Publisher: Center Street (Warner Faith).

Author: Karen Kingsbury is a USA Today and New York Times best-selling inspirational author with more than 5 million copies in print, more than two million of which were sold in the past year. Kingsbury is in the top 5 best selling authors in the U.S. faith-based book market with more than 35 novels written, nine of which have hit #1 on national lists. One of her earlier books, Deadly Pretender, was made into a CBS Movie-of-the-Week titled, “Every Woman’s Dream,” starring Kim Cattrall.

Screenwriter: Stephen J. Rivele (ALI, NIXON) Awards: Academy Award Nominated Screenwriter

Genre: Domestic drama set around the theme of adoption depicting a family in crisis. Target demographic is females, aged 35 to 54.

Target Rating: PG

U.S. Theatrical release date: Easter 2008 - Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Synopsis: Jack and Molly Campbell have everything in their small hometown outside West Palm Beach, Florida: Great house in a fancy neighborhood, high-paying job, and a beautiful little 4-year-old adopted boy, Joey. Until it's discovered that Joey's birth mother forged the signature of Joey's birth father, so the adoption was a fraud and Joeys biological father has been released from prison and is ready to start life over with his son.

When a judge rules that Joey must be returned to his father, Joey is suddenly thrust into a volatile household of people he's never met and, a father who doesn't know how to show love without violence. The Campbells, in a silent haze of grief and utter disbelief, watch their son pick a dandelion and blow the feathery seeds into the wind.

Struggling with the dilemma of following the law, their hearts, and what they know to be morally right, the Campbells find that desperation leads to dangerous thoughts. What if they devise a plan? Take Joey and simply disappear.... LIKE DANDELION DUST.

Website: http://www.likedandeliondust.com IMDB: Like Dandelion Dust

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