Antwone Fisher on Adoption & Abandonment

The Hudson Union Society™ www.hudsonunionsociety.com is where today's leaders come to discuss tomorrow's ideas. If you live not to far from New York, please join us in person. The critically acclaimed film Antwone Fisher is based on a true story of Antwone Fisher who--once a Sony Pictures security guard--eventually gained fame as an acclaimed writer and a Hollywood producer. The film Antwone Fisher was directed by Denzel Washington. In the earlier part of Fisher's life, he was a sailor prone to violent outbursts. On the verge of being kicked out of the Navy for repeated fighting, he was sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, Fisher eventually broke down and revealed a horrific childhood rife with abuse. With the help of a Navy psychiatrist, he turns his life around and decides to embark on a search to find the family that abandoned him as a baby. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew. In the course of that search, his life changes dramatically. After he found his aunt, within months, Fisher met all of his family, including his mother Eva Mae. He learned that she had given birth to four other children who were all taken away as wards of the state. Fisher said after their meeting: "In the place inside me where the hurt of abandonment had been, now only compassion lived."

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